Nick Burch wrote:
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Jean T. Anderson wrote:
My day job is using POI on a project, and somebody noticed that
org/apache/poi/hdgf/chunks/chunks_parse_cmds.tbl in
poi-scratchpad-3.1-FINAL-20080629.jar has a GNU Version 3 license.
You might find it worth reading:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk/legal/NOTICE
Thanks for the pointer -- very helpful as it addresses my question as to
whether it was a deliberate decision.
chunks_parse_cmds.tbl is a textual data file, and never has a binary
form - in license terms it's always in it's source format, however
it's distributed.
Hmmm, http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html seems to also cover text
files:
"XML and Text Configuration files under Category B licenses
The current license policy only allows source files to be included
under a Category A license, not a Category B license (binary only).
Therefore, XML and text files covered by a Category B license cannot be
included in an Apache product. Whether this places a significant burden
on PMCs will be reevaluated in six months."
But it also sounds like the 3party.html is still in a "proposed" stage.
thanks for the clarification, Nick,
-jean
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