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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
