In other words "no, no one has taken a serious look to make sure there are no more such issues"
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:59 PM, David Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is this one from the NOTICE that I wanted to bring up before FINAL. > >> A single resource file of the POI scratchpad component HDGF is taken from >> VSDump, and is under the GNU General Public Licence version 3 (GPL v3): >> http://gplv3.fsf.org/ >> Since this is a data file, and has no compiled version (the original >> file is distributed in both source and binary versions of POI), there >> should >> be little difference in licencing requirements compared to the ASL. >> For those wishing to avoid this component, the HDGF part of the POI >> scratchpad should be omitted. >> See http://www.gnome.ru/projects/vsdump_en.html > > This is used by the class. o.a.p.hdgf.HDGFLZW. Are we good with this one? > > An LZW implementation, do we need to worry about Unisys? > > Regards, > Dave > > On Dec 7, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Andrew Oliver wrote: > >> This is a pretty biggy. I used to do periodic license audits. Are we >> sure this is the only problem? >> >> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> The GPLv3 does seem to allow (GPLv3 section 4) verbatim copies of such >>>> source files without the the viral effects, but any modifications >>>> (GPLv3 section 5) to the chunkds_parse_cmds.tbl file would require >>>> licensing entire POI under that license. >>> >>> Thinking about this a bit more I figured that this reasoning just >>> doesn't work. HDGF is a "work based on" chunks_parse_cmds.tbl, and >>> thus falls under section 5 of GPLv3. >>> >>> Unless we can get the original author to grant as an alternative >>> license to the file, it should be removed or replaced in one way or >>> another. I filed bug #46361 [1] for this. >>> >>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46361 >>> >>> BR, >>> >>> Jukka Zitting >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
