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Ken Krugler commented on TIKA-1581:
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Based on what I see in other projects (e.g. the Lucene NOTICE.txt file) this 
seems to be following standard practices, so I'm going to assume it's OK.

> 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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