Glassfish is OK to redistribute; we already have two such jars under redistribution:
Directory of C:\wip\mcf\trunk\lib 02/27/2011 08:49 AM 1,026,818 jsp-2.1-glassfish-2.1.v20091210.jar 02/27/2011 08:49 AM 135,424 jsp-api-2.1-glassfish-2.1.v20091210.jar This is what was recorded in the license file for those: This product includes JSP API jars. License: Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL) v1.0 (https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/CDDLv1.0.html) Karl On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 11:19 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > ManifoldCF is Apache licensed. Apache projects cannot redistribute > GPL jars, but that is not a problem, because we probably do not need > to. What we usually do in such cases is download the dependencies at > build time, either automatically through the maven build, or by using > the "ant download-dependencies" target. For JDBC drivers that are > used by the core database layers, luckily they are loaded via > reflection so that lack of a driver will not prevent the build from > completing, although the user will need to download the driver and > build if they intend to use that driver. > > The standard tag library stuff is more problematic it that does not > have redistribution license acceptable for Apache, but I believe the > glassfish stuff is acceptable. I will verify and get back to you. > > The i18n issues, as I said before, are not trivial, and may well > require several iterations to get right. Tab names are just one > aspect of it. This is one reason I wanted to separate any i18n > contribution from the database contribution. > > Thanks, > Karl > > > 2011/12/12 Hitoshi Ozawa <[email protected]>: >> Hi, >> I'm checking on the MySQL licenses and it seems MySQL Connector/J is GPL >> v2 license with >> exception clause for FOSS. >> http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/foss-exception/ >> >> To be classified as FOSS, however, it seems the software has to be OSI >> certified. >> Is Apache ManifoldCF OSI Certified? >> >> "This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software. >> OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative." >> >> Does somebody know the license to JSTL libraries? I can't find any >> license in the jstl-api-1.2.jar >> and jstl-impl-1.2.jar files. The files are download-able from Oracle's >> GlassFish project page but >> there's not license page. >> >> BTW, I just created a Java message class to read String from properties >> file. Seems you've >> hard-coded tab names into the Java source files, which means I have to >> I18N all references to tab >> names or it won't work. >> >> Regards, >> H.Ozawa >>
