On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Norman Maurer >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi there, >>> >>> if I remember right this can not get changed as the new version use a >>> wrapper version that use a non compatible asl2 license. >> >> Thanks for the warning. I'll downgrade. > > I find the app-assembly stuff a little worrisome from the licensing > perspective. I'll try to find some time to dig around...
My reading of the 1.0 source [1] indicates [2] that the JSW dependency is download at runtime. The version 3.2.3 pom [3] gives the license as "Tanuki Software license". Searching the list of approved open source licenses [4], I don't find this listed. The URL [5] in the pom redirects to a "Choose License Page". If tanukisoftware have ever issued (in the past) a clear public license for their software it is clear that now they do not. Some of the claims made on that page indicate that their business model is based on aggressive pursuit of any distributors who distribute into open source licenses other than the GPLv2. This trick by tanukisoftware is - as far I'm concerned - deeply concerning for the wider ecosystem. Robert [1] https://fisheye.codehaus.org/browse/mojo/tags/appassembler-1.0/appassembler-maven-plugin/pom.xml?r=9048 [2] <!-- Here, we download the wrapper bundle and incorporate into the plugin directly --> <!-- TODO: improve by doing this dynamically in the plugin so that non-JSW users aren't burdened by the size of the plugin, and so the user can choose an alternate version --> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.0</version> <executions> <execution> <phase>generate-resources</phase> <configuration> <artifactItems> <artifactItem> <groupId>tanukisoft</groupId> <artifactId>wrapper-delta-pack</artifactId> <version>3.2.3</version> <type>tar.gz</type> </artifactItem> </artifactItems> </configuration> <goals> <goal>unpack</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> [3] http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=tanukisoft/wrapper-delta-pack/3.2.3/wrapper-delta-pack-3.2.3.pom [4] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical [5] http://wrapper.tanukisoftware.org/doc/english/license.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
