Hi Niels, the license is a mistake made by me. Those files were based from my work on spf4j-avro which is currently dual licensed with LGPL and Apache .
We should just replace the license headers with the appropriate Apache header. Let me know if you need me to do anything. Thank you --z > On Dec 13, 2017, at 8:14 AM, Niels Basjes <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I was going through the codebase and I found that several files are not > Apache licensed. > > https://github.com/apache/avro/tree/master/lang/java/compiler/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/compiler/schema > > Some of these files do not have a copyright block (fixable), yet some have > this: > > /* > > * Copyright (c) 2001 - 2016, Zoltan Farkas All Rights Reserved. > * > * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public > * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either > * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. > * > * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > * GNU General Public License for more details. > * > * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public > * License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software > * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. > */ > > And according to https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-x the > LGPL is not allowed to be included. > > How do we fix this problem? > > -- > Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, > > Niels Basjes
