Re: Action items now or after board meeting?

[Sam Ruby]

Noel J. Bergman wrote:

We do have the ASL license in our CVS.  What we don't have is a copy of it
in the particular directories that contain the builds of Avalon jars that
we're using.  What is the specific requirement?  And is it really true that
if the license is embedded in the jar file, that suffices?  There is no
requirement for it to be visible without someone having to look in the jar?

The Apache Software License paragraph 2 simply states a list of things that must be present in the distribution. If you believe that people would reasonably expect to find the license in the jar file, then I would say this complies. It might be prudent to mention this on the James website and/or in some README, as inside the jar is not necessarily the first place I would have thought to look.

With respect to dnsjava and mm.mysql, my understanding is that we had indeed
received such alternate licensing.  Perhaps this needs to be made more clear
somewhere.

If they issued a separate license for everyone to use, then I see no record of this on their website. If they issues a separate license for the ASF, then I would expect the board to have a copy of this and I would be very concerned about what limitations it might place on users of ASF software.

-Sam Ruby


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