On 30/04/2010 23:37, Kevan Miller wrote: > > On Apr 14, 2010, at 5:41 PM, Mark Thomas wrote: > >> On 14/04/2010 21:31, Mark Thomas wrote: >>> On 14/04/2010 21:06, sebb wrote: >>>> 2 files in BCEL have IBM headers; these headers are presumably OK, but >>>> the NOTICE file probably needs to mention IBM. Not sure why the BCEL >>>> source archive does not do so in its NOTICE file. That might be an >>>> error. >>> Hmm. I might be able to strip down what we use from BCEL to get rid of >>> those. >> >> Easier said than done. I'll add the necessary updates to LICENSE & NOTICE. > > > I'm assuming that this vote has been cancelled. And apologies for jumping in > so late -- just read this thread (motivated by discussion on geronimo dev > list).
It was, but I didn't make it official. I'll do that in a sec. > IMO, these files are not valid source files for an Apache release. I see the > two files in question were/are CPL licensed and you have elected to > distribute the files under EPL, instead. Either license seems problematic. > So, I'm not sure why it would matter... Both licenses are Category B licenses > (according to http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html ). Unless you feel > this source falls under the Category B exemption (which I don't think they > do), they should not be included in a release: > > "For small amounts of source that is directly consumed by the ASF product at > runtime in source form, and for which that source is unmodified and unlikely > to be changed anyway (say, by virtue of being specified by a standard), > inclusion of appropriately labeled source is also permitted. An example of > this is the web-facesconfig_1_0.dtd, whose inclusion is mandated by the JSR > 127: JavaServer Faces specification." Thanks for the review. My bad. I saw we are using EPL for the JDT compiler and assumed we'd be fine for this to. I'll see what I can do to work around it or get the license changed. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
