We have the following categories of dependencies:
1. Code from Sun.
Javamail, JAF... what else? This *should* be ok to distribute, and if not, Apache can threaten Sun again, and they'll cave. :) Not too worried about this, unless we're using some more obscure jars.
2. LGPL
Apache has always been leery about distributing with LGPL, partially because it's so poorly worded for Java code, partially because it's two competing licensing styles. For a couple of years it was becoming less frowned upon to distribute the two, but today an Apache Board member recently said you SHOULD NOT distribute without permission.
- DNSjava (from xbill) - I have received permission for (in the past.)
- Geo-ip - I have received permission for (in the past.)
- MySQL JDBC driver - can someone speak to having received permission?
Anything else?
3. GPL
This is explicitly forbidden from distribution.
4. BSD/Apache style licensing
This is good.
5. Commercial 3rd party
This is bad.
Here are the ones I quickly noted that I'm not sure of: - lib/junit.jar - phoenix-bin/isorelax.jar - phoenix-bin/jing.jar - phoenix-bin/xml-apis.jar
There might be others... if anybody can speak for these licenses and permissions we've received, that'd be great.
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