Agree, … just one more thing, can we enforce someone using the camel-dropbox 
component to adhere to the Dropbox API Terms and Conditions [1]?

If so, I would like to vote for a direct inclusion to the ASF branch.

Best,

Christoph

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/tos

On 07 Mar 2014, at 13:38, Christian Müller <[email protected]> wrote:

> MIT/X11 licensed software can be included. Have a look at [1].
> 
> [1] https://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html#criteriaandcategories
> 
> Best,
> Christian
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> 
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Christoph Emmersberger
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> + 1 for handling it the proposed way.
>> 
>> I just checked the legal page of ASF [1] and figured that MIT license is
>> basically compatible with ASF 2.0 [2].
>> 
>> However the statement regarding MIT license is not 100% clear, since it is
>> related to Ruby Gems and ending with the following statement:
>> 
>> "... other licenses (such as MIT) may also be OK, depending on the
>> license."
>> 
>> Therefore I would propose the following:
>> 
>> a) First, hand over the contribution on camel-extra
>> b) Get some clarification on licensing
>> c) If there is no licensing issue, we'll handle it as we've done in the
>> past and migrate the component to ASF [3].
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Christoph
>> 
>> [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
>> [2] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#ruby-license
>> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAMEL-7090
>> 
>> 
>> On 07 Mar 2014, at 12:58, Pontus Ullgren <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> In the the dropbox core API zip file there is a License.txt
>> 
>> 
>> https://www.dropbox.com/developers/downloads/sdks/core/java/dropbox-java-sdk-1.7.6.zip
>> ---
>> Copyright (c) 2013 Dropbox Inc., http://www.dropbox.com/
>> 
>> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
>> a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
>> "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
>> without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
>> distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
>> permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
>> the following conditions:
>> 
>> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
>> included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>> 
>> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
>> EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
>> MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
>> NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
>> LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
>> OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
>> WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
>> --
>> 
>> Why would this license stop the camel-dropbox component from beeing
>> released under the Apache License ?
>> To me the dropbox API license seems pretty permissive.
>> 
>> // Pontus
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Henryk Konsek <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> What I can not answer is, if the dropbox license and terms of conditions
>> meet the general ASF requirements or not.
>> 
>> 
>> Apparently not.
>> 
>> If it is not possible to contribute the component to the ASF branch, I
>> would
>> vote for a contribution to camel-extra.
>> 
>> 
>> I asked to author of the DropBox pull request if he would like to
>> contribute the project to Camel Extra.
>> 
>> Cheers.
>> 
>> --
>> Henryk Konsek
>> http://henryk-konsek.blogspot.com
>> 
>> 
>> 

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