[Soot-list] Soot Dual License Possible?

[Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau]

Hello Stephan,

As a side note from what Patrick said, the license in Soot is LGPL 2.1+.

I vaguely remember that GPL3 is supposed to be compatible with Apache,
so I made a quick search and there is a nice summary:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/227639/can-i-use-apache-software-license-version-2-0-and-gnu-lgpl-3-licence-plugins-in

You should read the licenses and reach your own conclusions. But it
looks like using Soot in your project would work just fine.

Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
Doctorant - PhD Candidate

On 28/03/14 04:58 PM, Stephan Ewen wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> We have worked quite a bit with soot and like a lot. We would like to
> include some features that perform code analysis it in one of our projects.
> 
> The problem is that the project is Apache Licensed and that LGPL is
> incompatible with the Apache Software License 2 (that is actually a
> first hand assessment from an Apache PMC). 
> 
> I wanted to ask if you would consider offering soot under a different
> license. Some projects offer their libraries under a dual license: There
> is a (L)GPL variant, and a ASL/BSD/MIT licensed variant.
> 
> That would allow us to go ahead with our code analysis efforts, based on
> Soot. Otherwise, I think we cannot make the Soot dependent features part
> of our project.
> 
> Greetings,
> Stephan
> 
> 
> 
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