Re: add BIRT branch to trunk.

[Scott Gray]

Your interpretation sounds a little more liberal than what I'm reading here: "For small amounts of source that is directly consumed by the ASF product at runtime in source form, and for which that source is unmodified and unlikely to be changed anyway (say, by virtue of being specified by a standard), inclusion of appropriately labeled source is also permitted. An example of this is the web-facesconfig_1_0.dtd, whose inclusion is mandated by the JSR 127: JavaServer Faces specification."

http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b





Regards
Scott

On 20/11/2009, at 7:38 PM, David E Jones wrote:

I don't think an entire javascript library (30+ files) could be considered a "small amount of source" even if it is unlikely to be changed in anyway. I'll have a look around the other ASF projects to see if anyone is doing something similar but I think it might be wise for us to ask legal.

-David


On Nov 19, 2009, at 7:55 PM, Scott Gray wrote:

According to the licensing guidelines page these should be fine as long as they are NOT and NEVER modified. In other words, there is an exception for certain files (especially javascript, and jsp should be okay too) where we can include the source if it is unmodified, since that is the only way they can operate (ie they can't be compiled and included in compiled form).

I checked out the branch and had a look, I see a large number of javascript and jsp source files that are EPL licensed and I'm pretty sure that we cannot include them.

Additionally and this one is a little more obscure and I could quite possibly be wrong but the dteapi.jar file contains a javax.olap package and the only reference I can find to that package is jsr-69 (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=069). According to that page the jsr never reached Final Release and the Proposed Final Draft was licensed under an evaluation license. Birt has written the source code for the interfaces defined by the specification themselves and licensed it as EPL but I have know idea whether they were legally allowed to do that.

Regards
Scott

On 20/11/2009, at 12:36 PM, Scott Gray wrote:

Hi Chatree and Hans,

What was the outcome of the EPL licensed source files?

Thanks
Scott

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On 20/11/2009, at 12:31 PM, Hans Bakker wrote:

We are now ready to add the BIRT branch to the trunk.

The branch:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/branches/addbirt

which contains a full ofbiz from 3 weeks ago with birt added and
implemented all comments that were received up to now.

It is implemented as secondary application.


received we will merge this with the trunk early next week.

Regards,

Chatree and Hans.

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