Emphasis mine. I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, but it seems to me that 1) The portion I highlighted has significance in making the decision and 2) even if it is a "work that uses the Library", then if falls under section 6b).

Regardless, this is the Apache Software Foundation's opinion only. Most other open source groups do not take such a conservative view with Java.


I was under the same impression as you. We are starting development on a commercial application and I need to be very careful it doesn't accidently get open sourced. I've urged my manager to pass the licenses past the company laywers as cover. I'll post any results if I can.

Regards,
John