On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Hendy Irawan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
IANAL and certainly not familiar with the Debian and Ubuntu license terms. here's the relevant JCR 1.0 specification license: http://www.day.com/maven/jsr170/licenses/day-spec-license.htm and a related post: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox//jackrabbit-dev/200706.mbox/%[email protected]%3e cheers stefan > > 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. >
