Ean Schuessler wrote: > I have done some more reading on Apache 3rd party licensing and after > some careful reading, I believe that Hans' use of BIRT is acceptably > within the policy. The latest copy of the policy is available at > "http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html"; with the key area being > "Category B: Reciprocal Licenses". The important phrase in that section > that we seem to have missed is the reference to code "not directly > consumed at runtime in source > <http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html#define-source> form". To me, > that phrase says that source which is "consumed at runtime in source > form" is not required to be shipped as a binary. > > The policy does suggest that source under a reciprocal license should be > clearly marked as such, primarily to avoid it (or dependencies on it) > being intermingled with other ASL code. I think that since BIRT is > packaged as its own component we are well on the way to this. We may > just want to consider whether this code belongs in "framework" as > opposed to "applications" or "specialpurpose". At the least, we should > include a NOTICE-BIRT-IS-EPL file or something at the root of the component. > One other noteworthy fact is that JUnit (which we use and don't think we have any intention of removing) is also under the CPL.
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