http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL_linking_exception
That exception allows distribution of GPL jars that have it as long as you don't change the jar in any way.
-Eric Jason Shao wrote:
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 -- Jason Shao Application Developer Rutgers University, Office of Instructional & Research Technologyv. 732-445-8726 | f. 732-445-5539 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://jay.shao.org--Join your friends and colleagues at JA-SIG with Altitude: June 24-27, 2007 in Denver, CO USA.Featuring keynotes by: Phil Windley, Matt Raible, Matt AsaySessions on topics including: CAS, uPortal, Portlets, Sakai, Identity Management, and Open SourceFor more information & registration visit: http://www.ja-sig.org/conferences/07summer/index.html---You are currently subscribed to [email protected] as: %%emailaddr%%. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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