On Jun 1, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Andrew Petro wrote:

> I see two needs of an opensource project respecting the licenses of  
> its dependencies.
>
> One is to actually comply with the terms of those licenses, which  
> often includes a requirement of acknowledgement and inclusion of  
> the license under which the dependency is used in and redistributed  
> with the project.
>
> Two is to document this compliance in such a way that one can be  
> reasonably confident in it and that it is maintainable.
>
> For example, it might technically be sufficient for license X to  
> appear somewhere in the project and to ship Jar Y which is  
> available under license X.  It's still desirable to articulate that  
> that's what we're doing, otherwise over and over again people will  
> have to wonder about whether and how we're shipping Jar Y.

Moving this to uportal-dev...

Hmmm... biggest license compliance question for me is whether it's  
legit to bundle GPL jars (Apache doesn't -- our license looks a lot  
like theirs).

Does Maven get us around this (since we're not redistributing the  
artifacts?)

Jason

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