Marshall Schor wrote: > The tika annotator is packaging the following 3rd party artifacts at the > moment: > >>>> These first 2 are the Apache Licensed code of the actual tika > project <<< > > org.apache.tika:tika-core:jar:0.4:compile > org.apache.tika:tika-parsers:jar:0.4:compile > >>>> These next are 3rd party Jars. Some not from Apache <<< > > org.apache.commons:commons-compress:jar:1.0:compile > pdfbox:pdfbox:jar:0.7.3:compile > org.fontbox:fontbox:jar:0.1.0:compile > org.jempbox:jempbox:jar:0.2.0:compile > bouncycastle:bcmail-jdk14:jar:136:compile > bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14:jar:136:compile > org.apache.poi:poi:jar:3.5-beta6:compile > org.apache.poi:poi-scratchpad:jar:3.5-beta6:compile > org.apache.poi:poi-ooxml:jar:3.5-beta6:compile > org.apache.poi:ooxml-schemas:jar:1.0:compile > org.apache.xmlbeans:xmlbeans:jar:2.3.0:compile > dom4j:dom4j:jar:1.6.1:compile > xml-apis:xml-apis:jar:1.0.b2:compile > org.apache.geronimo.specs:geronimo-stax-api_1.0_spec:jar:1.0:compile > commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.1.1:compile > net.sourceforge.nekohtml:nekohtml:jar:1.9.9:compile > xerces:xercesImpl:jar:2.8.1:compile > asm:asm:jar:3.1:compile > log4j:log4j:jar:1.2.14:compile > > I'm pretty sure that the LICENSE/NOTICE files need updating to cover all > of these components. I checked one, the asm:asm:jar:3.1 - and found > it's license requires including certain notices, contain in its license, > in all redistributions. > > The Tika project gets around this by not having any binary distribution; > so they never > distribute (themselves) these parts. > > I believe we also need to get an Export 5D002 Registration for the Tika > Annotator, and also for the > Sandbox Distribution which includes it. > > Any volunteers to research the License/Notice requirements for these > components? > > -Marshall
Ouch. How about we just pass the buck and don't distribute Tika either? I'm sure there will be a binary Tika distro eventually, with all the licenses and notices figured out. At that point, let's redistribute. Unless someone volunteers, that is. The Tika website has instructions on how to build etc. that we can point to. --Thilo
