On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Stefano Bagnara <apa...@bago.org> wrote: > 2011/6/12 Robert Burrell Donkin <robertburrelldon...@gmail.com>: >> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin >> <robertburrelldon...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Norman Maurer >>> <norman.mau...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> Hi Robert, >> >> Hi Norman >> >>>> I still don't get your point and I really disagree about "commenting >>>> out". >>> >>> I was worry that anyone here in England building James has a chance of >>> ending up in goal... >> >> I believe that permissive public licenses for JSW were available in >> the past but I find that can't obtain one now. This means I'm breaking >> the copyright law here in the UK. > > What does this means? I obtained the package from them some year ago. > It was under the MIT license and I can now redistribute it under the > same licensing.
Yes, you can :-) > Anyone can do this. No - only people who were issued with the old public license can > And in fact also maven.org is redistributing it > under the same MIT license: > http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=tanukisoft/wrapper-delta-pack/3.2.3/wrapper-delta-pack-3.2.3.tar.gz I reviewed the jar and pom. Maven central were never issued with the software under a public license, only under a promise that public license could be obtained. It's a systematic flaw... > I really must be missing or England must have some weird law (you > really have a law that say that the copyright holder can change the > content of the licenses granted in past at any time?). Copyright law here in the UK is v.poor :-( The owner can stop granting additional licenses to new licensees. Here in England it's a serious crime to publish or distribute a work without license. I don't have a license and can no longer obtain one with agreeing to a contract. So, running a script that downloads a new instance of the artifact at run time means I'm breaking the criminal law here in the UK. Anyone who has a public license could republish the artifact under that public license. There would be no problems then using that instance. Robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: server-dev-unsubscr...@james.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: server-dev-h...@james.apache.org
