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Tyler Palsulich commented on TIKA-1581:
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Is this fully resolved? Or, do we need an updated version of JHighlight in 
Central?

Once this is done, we'll need to release another version of Tika so downstream 
libraries don't have the transitive license issue. Correct me if I'm wrong.

> 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
>             Fix For: 1.8
>
>
> 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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