Folks,

I just reviewed the ASFs policy on including/linkting to software with
incompatible licenses (e.g. GPL/LGPL) [1]. If my reading is right, we are
OK to do that as long as the components depending on incompatible stuff
are not part of our official distribution. So a binary tapestry-hibernate
jar is OK since the binaries are not part of our official distribution,
only the source is. This means however, that we are not allowed to include
sources for modules that depend on software with incompatible licenses in
our official distribution, which we are currently doing, e.g. with
tapestry-hibernate.

What we need to do is

1. check the licenses of all dependencies and see if they are incompatible
to the ASL
2. remove the affected modules from the source distribution and replace
them with instructions on how to obtain them

Uli

[1] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#optional


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