Dear Jackrabbit community, I was trying to make Maven DAV Wagon (which uses Jackrabbit 1.5) into Debian/Ubuntu. The bug report is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573482 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537562
However preliminary discussion gets into license issues because JCR 1.0, part of Jackrabbit 1.5, is not free and hence cannot be put into a distro such as Debian and Ubuntu. Is this true? Ludovic Claude proposes that if the Maven DAV Wagon uses Jackrabbit 2.0 (JCR 2.0) it will be okay. Is this truly the case? I thought that Jackrabbit 2.0 is still JCR 1.0-compliant hence still contains JCR 1.0 code which is non-free. Is there a better solution to solve this licensing problem without patching Maven DAV Wagon (which may not be a trivial task)? Thank you. Forwarded conversation Subject: Re: Bug#573482: maven2: DAV Wagon not included - Cannot find wagon which supports the requested protocol: dav ------------------------ From: Torsten Werner <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:41 AM To: Hendy Irawan <[email protected]>, [email protected] Hi, On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Hendy Irawan <[email protected]> wrote: > DAV wagon is not included with Debian & Ubuntu's maven2 package although > it's included in Maven 2.x/3.x distribution by default. it needs jackrabbit 1.5 which has a non-free license (AFAIK) and is not packaged in Debian. Cheers, Torsten ---------- From: Hendy Irawan <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 3:46 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Yes it does require Jackrabbit, but it's free (like Maven itself, all Apache projects must use Apache-compatible License): Apache License 2.0. See: http://jackrabbit.apache.org/ -- Hendy Irawan www.CariDuitInternet.com www.HendyIrawan.com ---------- From: Torsten Werner <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:20 AM To: Hendy Irawan <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] No, not really. Jackrabbit 1.x uses JSR 170, with is under a non-free license. It is possible to get a fee-free license from Day software. Torsten ---------- From: Ludovic Claude <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:49 AM To: Torsten Werner <[email protected]>, [email protected] Cc: Hendy Irawan <[email protected]> JackRabbit 2.x uses the newest JCR 2.0 which is under an Apache 2 license. If somebody could convince (by providing a patch?) the Wagon developers to use this version of Jackrabbit, then we will be able to ship Maven with WebDAV support in Debian. Ludovic ----- http://www.Soluvas.com/ Soluvas - Making eCommerce Work for You -- View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Jackrabbit-1-5-License-not-free-for-Debian-Ubuntu-inclusion-tp1589810p1589810.html Sent from the Jackrabbit - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
