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

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Regards,

Erik

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