Hi Scott, The files you have problems with, are in the Birt viewer we did remove now because not really important for the report runtime.
Do not ask me to go to legal to explain the problem you reported, English is my second language and I am not the person to discuss (US) legal problems with. I am a more pragmatic guy which simply ask the owner of a product for approval if we can include it in OFBiz and our users can use it in their installations according the Apache 2 license. Isn't the owner the only person who can make us license problems? We are talking about the runtime only so i still am pretty sure they give us that permission. Anyway, please have a look at it again, if you can live with the current branch to be included that would be nice. Regards, Hans On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 08:51 +1300, Scott Gray wrote: > On 2/12/2009, at 6:31 AM, Adam Heath wrote: > > > Hans Bakker wrote: > >> So you are not willing to discuss this with the eclipse guys and > >> help me > >> solve a problem you came up with and seems to be blocking. > >> > >> This is how i solved the docbook license problem and got an approval > >> from the owners because all this licence stuff is a pain in the > >> butt not > >> only for us but also for them. Apache OFBiz gets now so much weight > >> that > >> often they either change the license or give us a specific approval. > > > > Specific approval just for ofbiz is not good enough. Other people can > > redistribute ofbiz, and they still need to be compliant. > > This is what legal needs to answer, I am aware of other libraries in > use in ASF projects where exceptions have been granted by the licensor > so it is possible, I'm just not sure what form it needs to take so > that it applies to downstream users as well. I think it actually > needs to be a relicensed with a modified version of the EPL that > explicitly removes the weak copy-left requirement. Personally I > struggle to believe that birt would do this, especially for a released > version. > > Regards > Scott -- Antwebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive rates
