On 13.03.2015 09:32, Dmitriy Setrakyan wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:13 AM, Branko Čibej <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 13.03.2015 08:41, Dmitriy Setrakyan wrote: >>> Brane, >>> >>> 1. The license files you are seeing are used for the binary builds and >> are >>> not related to the source code. I believe we are not violating any ASF >>> policies here by having these files under the source tree. >> Sure, I was just wondering why they're there. As a matter of interest: >> how and why does the binary build use a GPL license file? >> > They are there for informational purposes only. For example, our optional > hibernate module does not have any hibernate code, but does have a binary > dependency on the hibernate jar. We provide the license simply to inform > the user that this dependency, if used and enabled, will bring in another > license into their application. > > Does this make sense?
Sure, thanks.
