Eric & Jason & All,
We went through a lot of this with Sakai & Kuali and I'd be happy to
share what we've learned & some of the practices we've developed to
adapt. Most of it is documented here:
http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/LIC/Home
/Chris.
On Jun 4, 2007, at 8:17 AM, Eric Dalquist wrote:
I don't think maven gets us around this. The big thing with GPL
jars is if they have the classpath exception:
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
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