[Fedora-legal-list] Packaging oVirt generated source

Juan Hernandez juan.hernandez at redhat.com
Mon Apr 23 16:01:22 UTC 2012


On 04/23/2012 05:20 PM, Tom Callaway wrote:
> On 04/23/2012 10:50 AM, Juan Hernandez wrote:
>> We would like to package for fedora the Data Ware House component of
>> oVirt, which contains parts generated using Talend Open Studio (see [1]).
>>
>> This tool allows the user to define graphically some data flows and
>> transformations and then generates Java code. The generated Java code
>> states in the header that the license is LGPL and the tool itself claims
>> to be open source using GPL v2 (see [2]).
>>
>> Is it acceptable from the legal point of view to create a Fedora package
>> using the generated Java code as the source?
> 
> Is _all_ code generated via Talend Open Studio automatically marked as
> being LGPL, or is this a decision that the use generating the Java code
> makes consciously?

I think that all the code is marked LGPL, there is no other alternative.
Yaniv, can you confirm this?



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