Thanks for looking into this. I've created JIRA 1544 to address the issue and believe that I have a work-around.
Regards, erik On Wednesday 25 January 2006 18:44, 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 -- Regards, Erik
