Re: OFBiz Web Application won't load

2018-06-12 Thread Jacques Le Roux
+1. Do we need a Jira ? I tend to think "NO", for tools and site. Jira Le 12/06/2018 à 08:36, Sharan Foga a écrit : +1 It will also need changing at https://ofbiz.apache.org/business-users.html too Thanks Sharan On 2018/06/12 04:59:42, Swapnil Mane wrote: Hi Dev team, Looking into this

Re: License issue with iText 4.2.0

2018-06-12 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Le 11/06/2018 à 20:31, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit : There are 18 emails so far in this thread of which 13 are yours. - You mentioned stuff from wikipedia - then you mentioned stuff about licensing - then you switched to birt - then you talked about the author - then you go back to questioning how t

Re: License issue with iText 4.2.0

2018-06-12 Thread Taher Alkhateeb
First of all, I think it's always a bad idea to "comment out" any code, and the general rule of thumb is to prefer deleting. Second, the framework and plugins are two separate projects. You cannot crash the standalone framework so that the plugins can work, because you're making the framework depe

Re: License issue with iText 4.2.0

2018-06-12 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Le 12/06/2018 à 11:56, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit : First of all, I think it's always a bad idea to "comment out" any code, and the general rule of thumb is to prefer deleting. Mmm, what? I just commented out to test. Your comment makes no sense to me, you could have avoided it. Of course it's to

Re: OFBiz Web Application won't load

2018-06-12 Thread Sharan Foga
Hi Jacques We have been creating Jira’s for updates to the website https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9665 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10339 so I think consistency is good even though it is a small change. Thanks Sharan On 2018/06/12 07:24:24, Jacques Le Roux wrote:

Re: License issue with iText 4.2.0

2018-06-12 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Le 12/06/2018 à 14:21, Jacques Le Roux a écrit : com.lowagie.text.* is included in the 3.6.1 BIRT runtime jar that we use, and there is a legal agreement between the BIRT team and Bruno Lowagie to use this version[1]. To be clear here, as you (Taher) outlined, we still need to have in our main

Re: OFBiz Web Application won't load

2018-06-12 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Yes indeed, thanks for the reminder Sharan Jacques Le 12/06/2018 à 14:53, Sharan Foga a écrit : Hi Jacques We have been creating Jira’s for updates to the website https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9665 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10339 so I think consistency is goo

Re: License issue with iText 4.2.0

2018-06-12 Thread Taher Alkhateeb
I'm no longer interested in discussing this, I already explained it. -1 on the comment -1 on the removal +1 on excluding the transitive dependency If you want to fix things for BIRT, I recommend you do it _outside_ the framework. On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 4:36 PM, Jacques Le Roux wrote: > Le 12/0

Re: License issue with iText 4.2.0

2018-06-12 Thread Taher Alkhateeb
to qualify: +1 on excluding the transitive dependency after testing that it works On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 4:44 PM, Taher Alkhateeb wrote: > I'm no longer interested in discussing this, I already explained it. > > -1 on the comment > -1 on the removal > +1 on excluding the transitive dependency >

Re: License issue with iText 4.2.0

2018-06-12 Thread Jacques Le Roux
That's not serious, remains a legal issue as explained at https://developers.itextpdf.com/question/versions-older-than-5 > Our users deserver better than saying that I could fix BIRT. You did not get it, there is nothing to fix in BIRT. It's unrelated. We

Re: License issue with iText 4.2.0

2018-06-12 Thread Jacques Le Roux
And for those who are not convinced: https://developers.itextpdf.com/question/can-i-use-itext-without-respecting-agpl-license jacques Le 12/06/2018 à 18:15, Jacques Le Roux a écrit : That's not serious, remains a legal issue as explained at https://developers.itextpdf.com/question/versions-o

Re: License issue with iText 4.2.0

2018-06-12 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Thanks for your report Scott, After checking as much as I can, here are my conclusions: As you reported "com.itextpdf:itextpdf:5.5.6" can't be used, it's AGPL so incompatible with ASL2 Taher suggested to simply exclude loading it. So only loading "com.lowagie:itext:4.2.0" which is MPL/GPL Bu

Re: OFBiz Web Application won't load

2018-06-12 Thread Swapnil Mane
Thanks Sharan & Jacques, Here is the Jira for the updates to the website, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10433. - Best Regards, Swapnil M Mane www.hotwax.co On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 7:07 PM Jacques Le Roux < jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: > Yes indeed, thanks for the reminder

Re: License issue with iText 4.2.0

2018-06-12 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:47 PM, Jacques Le Roux < jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: > [...] > Of course we need to ask the legal team before taking a formal decision > about it. > I think we have now enough material to ask, and without opposition I'll > create a LEGAL Jira in a week. I thin