On 2/10/07, Jörg Schaible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Niall,
Niall Pemberton wrote:
> I tried running the RAT[1] tool over the RC but invalid characters in
> conf/testEncoding.xml caused RAT to fail[2] :-( Removing that file it
> higlighted a licensing issue - MockStaticMemoryInitialContextFactory
> has a "Copyright The Spice Group" and indicates that a copy of its
> license should be in LICENSE.txt - I checked LICENSE.txt and it didn't
> have one (just the ASF license).
yes and no. The code is in use for unit tests but does not belong to the
core distribution i.e. users of commons-configuration do not inherit this
code and do therefore have to add only the ASF license. How did we handle
such cases earlier?
Since its in the source distro then IMO we need to comply with their
license as we are re-distributing their code. In their code it says
the license should be included in the LICENSE file:
http://spice.codehaus.org/jndikit/license.html
So it looks to me like you need to add it into LICENSE.txt and put a
line in NOTICE.txt saying something like the following:
This product includes software developed by
The Spice Group (http://spice.codehaus.org/).
Having said that I'm no legal expert - to get a proper opinion then
you should ask on [email protected]
Niall
[snip]
- Jörg
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