Thank you for the dual-license, and other license, information. It's getting a little clearer. ;-)
Since the Jackson wiki says Jackson 2.x is Apache-only, should we contact them about the issue of the pom.xml and META-INF/MANIFEST.MF showing both licenses? Maybe it's an oversight? On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 5:26 PM Stian Soiland-Reyes (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote: > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAVERNA-926?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15182436#comment-15182436 > ] > > Stian Soiland-Reyes commented on TAVERNA-926: > --------------------------------------------- > > > If a binary dependency is CDDL/GPL dual-licensed (as most of the Oracle > stuff), then it's best to leave them as-is to not force a choice on > downstream users. E.g. if we choose GPL, then it's not compatible with > Apache license (and we can't distribute it ourselves). If we choose CDDL > (which we can redistribute), then it's not compatible with GPL license > (and so you couldn't use Taverna with a GPL plugin). > > Jackson is confusing the license plugin, as those JARs themselves contain > a LICENSE file that is just Apache license (so it should be good), while > the pom.xml and META-INF/MANIFEST.MF lists both - indicating dual-license. > > > Category B licenses in taverna-databundle > > ----------------------------------------- > > > > Key: TAVERNA-926 > > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TAVERNA-926 > > Project: Apache Taverna > > Issue Type: Bug > > Components: Taverna Language > > Affects Versions: language 0.15.1 > > Reporter: Gale Naylor > > > > The following GNU, GPL licenses are Category B licenses and are not > allowed in Apache products: > > (GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1) (The Apache > Software License, Version 2.0) Jackson-annotations > (com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:2.3.3 - > http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonHome) > > (GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1) (The Apache > Software License, Version 2.0) Jackson-core > (com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-core:2.3.3 - > http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonHome) > > (GNU Lesser General Public License, Version 2.1) (The Apache > Software License, Version 2.0) jackson-databind > (com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind:2.3.3 - > http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonHome) > > (CDDL+GPL License) JAXB OSGI (com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-osgi:2.2.11 - > http://jaxb.java.net/jaxb-bundles/jaxb-osgi/jaxb-osgi) > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > (v6.3.4#6332) >
