I think we need to defer to 1.1 unless we have a graphic artist that can
make replacement ASL 2 licensed icons in a short amount of time.
John
Matt Hogstrom wrote:
Great research John. Do you think we should defer the installer to
1.1 given these issues? It would certainly make a bigger splash I
think. Erik, thoughts?
Matt
John Sisson wrote:
Hi Erik,
There appears there are some issues with the licensing of some files
in the installer JAR file for the upcoming Geronimo 1.0.1 release.
Although the IzPack installer itself is supposed to be under an ASF 2
license, it appears that the generated Geronimo installer JAR
contains some files that may not be under the ASF 2 license or
compatible with the ASF 2 license.
There are two groups of files/libraries that are included that are
potentially suspect:
1) A number of images are included in the installer JAR in the /img
directory. The IzPack installer history page (
http://www.izforge.com/izpack/index.php?page=history ) says that the
3.5.0 version switched to the Crystal icons from KDE 3.2. I found
that some of the images in the installer jar binary match images
(e.g. ascii.png and bookmark.png) from "Crystal SVG for Linux"
download on http://www.everaldo.com/crystal.html . Some images also
looked the same but differed in a binary comparison (maybe I am
comparing a different version of the icons). A google of crystal
icons reveals (from various discussions) that they are under a LGPL
license. So the use of the icons is not suitable in ASF projects.
This issue should probably be raised with the IzPack project. It may
take a while for the IzPack project or ourselves to obtain images
from another source that are suitable replacements.
2) Liquid look and feel files under the package com\birosoft\liquid .
The liquidlnf project's page displays a LGPL license (
https://liquidlnf.dev.java.net/ ).
Removing the following lines from the geronimo-izpack.xml file
prevented the liquid files being included.
<laf name="liquid">
<os family="unix"/>
</laf> Therefore the liquid LGPL issue appears to be solvable.
The removal of the laf configuration the geronimo-izpack.xml file
does not affect the images that are in the jar under the /img directory.
FYI: Henry Yandell confirmed that the NanoXML files in the installer
JAR under the package net\n3\nanoxml under a zlib/libpng License are
compatible with the ASF 2 license. (
http://nanoxml.cyberelf.be/download.html ).
Regards,
John
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