+1 for Struts as 100% Apache Code. :-) -- Martin Cooper
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > If you're subscribed to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, > you'll be aware that there have been some recent policty decisions with > the goal of tightening down on the licenses of packages that are shipped > inside Apache software products. When looking at our Struts > distributions, the only software that is *not* originally Apache code is > the JDBC 2.0 optional package, which defines things like > javax.sql.DataSource. > > The Sun license under which jdbc2_0-stdext.jar was downloaded allows > redistribution when packaged in the manner we are doing so -- but, it > seems to me, that we don't really need to supply it. Any servlet > container that supports data sources is going to have it available already > (as will anyone running a 1.4 or later JDK, which incorporates these APIs > already). Therefore, I propose to remove it from the binary distributions > of Struts that we create. > > This package will continue to be a compile-time dependency for building > Struts itself, so anyone who builds Struts from source (and isn't running > on 1.4) will need to provide this. That's fine -- the developer will have > had to accept the license terms to acquire this JAR file, and it's not our > issue any longer. > > If we make this change, Struts will become a "100% Apache Code" > distribution, which will be fun to crow about a little, too :-). > > Comments? > > Craig > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
