Hello everyone,

There are some questions I have in my mind regarding the use of Hibernate in a commercial application, according to the LGPL terms. As everyone knows, it is very important to be fully compliant with open source license terms, and this is why I would like to ask you these questions. Here it goes:

1) If I want to use hibernate in a commercial application, can I distribute an unmodified binary version of it along aside with my application ? According to https://www.hibernate.org/356.html I think I can, but reading the LGPL license, I am not a 100% confident about it (my apologies, I'm not a lawyer).

2) Besides including the full LGPL license in a text file along aside with my application, what else should I include? Must I make the full hibernate source code physicaly available somewhere too?

3) If I buy a hibernate support contract, will its license be different?

Sorry if these questions are dumb, I just want to make sure I'm respecting the great work that hibernate team have been providing for years.

Thanks!