Hi, On 9/21/07, Jacco van Weert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We at the NLR (National Aerospace Laboratory, The Netherlands) are preparing > to release our JeCARS (Java Extendable Contents And Rights System) as open > source software, it will be Apache License v2.0 (on sourceforge).
Nice! > JeCARS uses Jackrabbit so we also want to include Jackrabbit as well. I now > want to check that we are doing things the right way. We include the binary > .jar files in the JeCARS CVS repository and add for every jar file the > LICENSE.txt > file. Is this okay? Yes. Basically you need to include the license (only a single copy is enough) and a notice like "This product includes software developed at The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/)." See the actual license and the FAQ (http://www.apache.org/foundation/licence-FAQ.html) for all the details. > About the jsr_170.jar file, can we distribute that as well?.... same > license? The JCR API jar file (jcr-1.0.jar) is not available under the Apache License, but you can still include it in your distribution. The original Specification License associated with the API jar is rather strict about redistribution (though AFAIK it would have allowed you to embed the file since you're embedding a conforming JCR implementation), but see http://www.day.com/maven/jsr170/jars/LICENSE.txt for an addendum that gives you broader rights for redistribution. BR, Jukka Zitting
