At 05:55 6/12/00 -0800, Jon Stevens wrote: >on 12/6/2000 5:42 PM, "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well not about that but more due to legal thing. I would never touch >> something that has Suns license attached. I thought Apache had a clean tree >> policy - ie only Apache copyright source is allowed to exist in CVS. >> However Crimson has Sun copyright stuff in the tree - this seems silly - >> especially as xml-xerces has similar source (the jaxp parser package) that >> could be easily adpated to jaxp1.1 and we could do away with unclean tree >> and that silly license. >> >> I guess it is a little anal but I have seen the results of discarding >> legality (thou I live in a particularly restrictive country so YMMV). > >Turbine is totally illegal with regards to what it distributes. We are legal >with regards to GPL (we don't include any GPL software), but not with >regards to Sun's .jar files (ie: mail.jar, activation.jar, etc...)
I thought they were covered by "Binary Code License Agreement" + the standard extention Supplemental. I agree you break some parts .. namely you don't 1. comply with export restrictions to embargoes countries 2. allow it to be used within nuclear facilties ;) 3. possibly the strictures set out for US gov software (which I don't know anything about) Stefano said ages ago that (1) would be fixed (ie block ftp/cvs connections from "bad" countries). You can comply with (2) by adding a simple disclaimer (Not for use in nuclear facilties ;]). About 3 I don't know but it could be looked into if it was an issue. However jaxp1.1 is an early release and thus covered by the "Pre-Release Binary Software Evaluation Agreement" which explictly disallows distribution (among other things). Thats why I *thought* that distributing mail.jar is legal but jaxp1.1.jar is not - thou IANAL so ... ;) Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
