Hello httpclient users,

In two Apache http components there seems to be some mixing up in connection 
with a copyrighted annotation „Java Concurrency in Practice” Copyright (c) 2005 
Brian Goetz and Tim Peierls under Creative Commons Attribution License 2.5. AND 
Apache License 2.0 original code. 

Jcip concurrency 
annotation<http://jcip.net.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/> 
source<http://jcip.net.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/jcip-annotations-src.jar>
 is relicensed to Apache License 2.0 partly, partly left its Creative Commons 
Attribution License within the same Apache distribution. Here are the details:


1.       HttpComponents-Client 
4.2.1<http://archive.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpclient/source/httpcomponents-client-4.2.1-src.tar.gz>
 – this LICENSE file 
\httpcomponents-client-4.2.1-src.zip\httpcomponents-client-4.2.1\LICENSE.txt 
has two licenses inside: Apache 2.0 and Creative Commons Attribution License:


„ Apache License
                           Version 2.0, January 2004
                        http://www.apache.org/licenses/
(...)
This project contains annotations derived from JCIP-ANNOTATIONS
Copyright (c) 2005 Brian Goetz and Tim Peierls.
See http://www.jcip.net and the Creative Commons Attribution License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)”

However, the actual annotation marks the same as Apache in the source code 
\httpcomponents-client-4.2.1-src.zip\httpcomponents-client-4.2.1\jcip-annotations.py
 :

„# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
# distributed with this work for additional information
# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0(...)”

--> What is the license of JCIP-ANNOTATIONS in this Apache distribution: Apache 
or Creative Commons 2.5?

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2.       HttpComponents-Core 
4.2.1<http://archive.apache.org/dist/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-4.2.1-src.tar.gz>
 — similar to Client, this file 
\httpcomponents-core-4.2.1-src.zip\httpcomponents-core-4.2.1\LICENSE.txt has 
only one license (Apache 2.0), but the NOTICE file still refers to the original 
copyright:





„This project contains annotations derived from JCIP-ANNOTATIONS

Copyright (c) 2005 Brian Goetz and Tim Peierls. See http://www.jcip.net”


Finally, the actual annotation is marked as Apache in the source code in every 
file in 
\httpcomponents-core-4.2.1-src.zip\httpcomponents-core-4.2.1\httpcore\src\main\java\org\apache\http\annotation\:

„# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
# distributed with this work for additional information
# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0(...)”

Could you make the licensing clear?

Thank you for answers,

Üdvözlettel / Best Regards,

Péter POLHODZIK
License Clearing Specialist
[cid:[email protected]]
Phone:

+36 (46) 5-17894

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+36 (46) 5-17801

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