Karl Wright created TIKA-1581:
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Summary: jhighlight license concerns
Key: TIKA-1581
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-1581
Project: Tika
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 1.7
Reporter: Karl Wright
jhighlight jar is a Tika dependency. The Lucene team discovered that, while it
claims to be a CDDL/LGPL dual-license, some of its functionality is LGPL only:
{code}
Solr's contrib/extraction contains jhighlight-1.0.jar which declares itself as
dual CDDL or LGPL license. However, some of its classes are distributed only
under LGPL, e.g.
com.uwyn.jhighlight.highlighter.
CppHighlighter.java
GroovyHighlighter.java
JavaHighlighter.java
XmlHighlighter.java
I downloaded the sources from Maven
(http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=com/uwyn/jhighlight/1.0/jhighlight-1.0-sources.jar)
to confirm that, and also found this SVN repo:
http://svn.rifers.org/jhighlight/tags/release-1.0, though the project's website
seems to not exist anymore (https://jhighlight.dev.java.net/).
I didn't find any direct usage of it in our code, so I guess it's probably
needed by a 3rd party dependency, such as Tika. Therefore if we e.g. omit it,
things will compile, but may fail at runtime.
{code}
Is it possible to remove this dependency for future releases, or allow only
optional inclusion of this package? It is of concern to the ManifoldCF project
because we distribute a binary package that includes Tika and its required
dependencies, which currently includes jHighlight.
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