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Comment by zmmmmm | Hacker News Reader

    Don't bother your legal team.
    We're not another SaaS company and we don't have access to your data.

I love it. (even if that's not quite enough to completely ignore legal in my org)

Strange claim, actually. Considering that it's under LGPL, so the legal team must and want to know about it.

Deal breaker for us, since alternatives exist that aren't so hobbled.

I get legal having issues with GPL but LGPL???

It's still possible to violate the license. I guess a "fat jar" distribution could be a trouble.

Thats what the classpath exception is for, no?

FYI, Hibernate (used by a lot of Java shops) is also LGPL 2.1 licensed.

But they don't claim that your legal team should not be bothered? I mean, that's the strange part, not the license itself

While it's ok to violate the terms of software under other licenses?