<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I am not a lawyer and you are not likely to find one on this list. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That said, the license you choose only applies to your code, not dependencies your code uses. </div><div class="">However, users of your code have to consider the ramifications of all the dependencies you use.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But if you are using Logback you almost certainly are using SLF4J as your logging API. SLF4J </div><div class="">uses the MIT license, which pretty much allows anyone to do anything. In other words, you will </div><div class="">never have a licensing problem with code that uses it. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If, for some reason, users aren’t comfortable with the EPL, they can pick other logging frameworks </div><div class="">that support SLF4J. But it is very unlikely anyone would have a problem using code that uses the</div><div class="">EPL license.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ralph</div><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 10, 2022, at 7:00 AM, Stefano <<a href="mailto:stefano@perand.com" class="">stefano@perand.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi all,<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">The project is a Java library that contains <a href="https://github.com/qos-ch/logback" target="_blank" class="">logback</a> as a dependency.<br class=""></div><div class="">Since logback is published under EPLv1 I'm wondering if I can publish my project under MIT license.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What do you think about it? <br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,<br class=""></div><div class="">Stefano<br class=""></div></div>
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