Well, I just noticed that the license.txt content are just the "MIT
license" repeated twice (for 2 different copyright holders).
MIT license is a category A and I guess we are safe with it.

Does this answer Robert concerns?

Stefano

2011/6/12 Stefano Bagnara <[email protected]>:
> Hi Robert,
>
> Tanuki swiched to GPL+commercial when it was 3.2.3.
>
> You can download 3.2.3 sources and packages from sourceforge and here
> is the license included in those files:
> ===========================
> Copyright (c) 1999, 2006 Tanuki Software, Inc.
>
> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
> obtaining a copy of the Java Service Wrapper and associated
> documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software
> without  restriction, including without limitation the rights
> to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sub-license,
> and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to
> whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the
> following conditions:
>
> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
> included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>
> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
> EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
> OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
> NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
> HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
> WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
> FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
> OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
>
>
> Portions of the Software have been derived from source code
> developed by Silver Egg Technology under the following license:
>
> BEGIN Silver Egg Techology License -----------------------------------
>
>    Copyright (c) 2001 Silver Egg Technology
>
>    Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
>    obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
>    files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
>    restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
>    copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sub-license, and/or
>    sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
>    Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
>    conditions:
>
>    The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
>    included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>
>    THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
>    EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
>    OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
>    NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
>    HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
>    WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
>    FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
>    OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
>
> END Silver Egg Techology License -------------------------------------
>
> =================================
>
> this sounds very liberal. As you noted this is not yet classified in
> the license compatibility page, so maybe we should open a JIRA issue
> for the legal team.
> I'm not a lawyer but the above license sounds ALv2 compatible, so I
> expect/home it will pass the review.
>
> Stefano
>
> 2011/6/12 Robert Burrell Donkin <[email protected]>:
>> 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
>>
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