Hi Boris, SLF4J is licensed under an X11 type of license which is considered universal, in the sense both the Free Software Foundation and Apache Software Foundation deem it compatible with their respective licensed. I am not aware of any organization which has issues with the X11 license. Logback is licensed under LGPL because while its use is completely free, we would like logback extensions to be distributed under LGPL. The LGPL is widely accepted. One of the rare places where its frowned upon is the ASF. However, even ASF projects can use logback, as long as they do so behind SLF4J, which also happens to be the way recommended by logback. Does this answer your question? At 10:32 PM 9/11/2006, Boris Unckel wrote:
Hello,
in opposite to slf4j logback is licensed under LGPL. I understand that both are compatible, but why is logback not released under a BSD-Style license like slf4j?
Regards Boris
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