On Nov 6, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Henri Yandell wrote:
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
On Nov 6, 2005, at 1:10 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
Henri Yandell wrote:
The BCL files are forbidden by that license to be in source
control, and
must be removed. They *are* permitted to be distributed in a
package. The
same issue exists for JAMES, Tomcat, and many other packages. At
some point
in the future, they should not be an issue, as Sun's new versions
will be
under a more open license.
Why? The BCL requires us (and our users) to indemnify Sun.
That's now acceptable?
Something for you to continue to push on legal-discuss/board etc
Geir. The current policy that I've seen repeated is that we can
ship as a package, but not individually or put in svn (unsure if
that's because putting in svn would mean ship individually).
Ug. Yes, the license prevents distribution outside of the program
that uses it, hence no CVS/SVN. When I was focused on this with Sun,
they did offer to give us permission to keep in SVN/CVS because that
was part of our bona fide open source development process, rather
than a distribution system.
We got rid of the field of use problem (no use in nukes...) but never
could get past the indemnification.
Until we have an official policy on it, the community policy is all
we have to work with; so another one for Cliff's TODO list to get
ironed out :)
Yes, I'll certainly defer to Cliff on this one.
geir
Hen
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