Re: Action items now or after board meeting?

[Sam Ruby]

Noel J. Bergman wrote:

Sam,

We've been discussing the jar licensing, and want to check: do we have an
action item TODAY, or do we wait for the board meeting to provide formal
guidance?

If I am correct in presuming that you are looking over James's assets, then you have no action item from me at this point. I'm asking every Jakarta PMC member to do a review of the assets that they are involved with for license compliance.

I would like to be able to report that this is complete at the next board meeting.

At the moment, I am told that we have permissions for dnsjava and mm.mysql
from their authors, as well as geo-ip from that author.  The other jars are
JavaMail and JAF.

Both Dnsjava and mm.mysql are licensed under GPL or LGPL. I would strongly recommend that you get the author to provide an alternate license. The author might be delighted to have us redistribute his code, but people who use ASF software might not be so appreciative of this.

As to JavaMail and JAF, the license is clear: you can distribute only bundled as part of, and for the sole purpose of running, your Programs.

Dion Gillard also believes that a copy of the ASF License file needs to be
in every directory of the CVS within which is located a jar, unless the jar
has the ASL embedded in it.

I agree. I note that cocoon has chosen to put the licenses in a separate directory. That works too. The layout is not the important thing, but complying with the terms of the license is.

Please advise.  Thanks.  :-)

	--- Noel

P.S.  Since I know that this subject is bound to annoy people, I want to get
Dion out of the firing line; people should know that he and the rest of the
Maven team were asked to do the audits.

The Maven team was asked to audit themselves and the resources they provide to others.

- Sam Ruby


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