The file did start life as a copy of the default config file within the
JBoss AS 7 install artifact. We then modified it. We would have reached
pretty much the same final config file if we had approached it by taking
the examples / code snippets from docs + blogs.
For MariaDB, I believe it was more written from doc snippets. It's a
much smaller file that doesn't closely match the my.cnf in the default
install.
Aled
On 11/11/2014 22:58, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
On 11/11/2014 04:47 PM, Aled Sage wrote:
Having reviewed those config files and the MariaDB / JBoss docs, I
believe there is a strong case for this being config that just matches
snippets from the docs, and examples that are readily available on a
myriad of blogs. Our template config files are similar to the default
files, but unsurprisingly the defaults match docs and thus match what
one would write for a basic deployment.
I therefore conclude that our version of the files are not (L)GPL
licensed, and that we should remove them from the NOTICE file.
*Mentors:* any comments?
Sorry - are your files taken from the templates and slightly modified,
or are they config files that simply happen to have similar sections to
the defaults / documentation examples?
We went through all these things with a fine-toothed comb for Apache
CloudStack - possibly with even more caution than absolutely necessary -
and we did wind up contacting several upstream maintainers to get a
sign-off on their config files not being licensed under LGPL/GPL, etc.
Best,
jzb
