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Re: License ambiguity to hopefully clear up.
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created by <a href="https://community.jboss.org/people/chiba">Shigeru Chiba</a> in <i>Javassist</i> - <a href="https://community.jboss.org/message/778014#778014">View the full discussion</a>
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>That's a kind of historical confusion.  Javassist is currently distributed under triple licenses MPL, Apache v2,</p><p> and/or LGPL.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Javassist was originally being distributed under MPL and then, when it was merged into JBoss, LGPL was</p><p>added.  The interpretation between Marc (the founder of JBoss) and me was that, if someone redistributes</p><p>Javassist as a part of JBoss AS from JBoss, it is subject to LGPL.  If Javassist is separately (or as a part</p><p>of third-party products) distributed, the distributor can choose either MPL, LGPL, or (now you can also choose)</p><p>Apache v2.  (S)he can also choose any combination of the three such as MPL+Apache and MPL+LGPL.</p><p>According to the definition, JBoss (now redhat) choosed LGPL-only for distributing Javassist as a part of</p><p>JBoss AS etc.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Javassist is now also availalbe from Maven central.  It would be much more preferable to your lawyers.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Another comment to your lawyers is that, when we added Apache v2 to the available license, all the</p><p>contributors agreed to that.  (Unfortunately, the number of the contributors is small enough to easily make</p><p>the agreement.)  So all of them agreed (by email basis) to the triple licensing.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Mike, is this clear?</p></div>
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