On 1/5/12 1:42 PM, Rick Hillegas wrote:
On 1/4/12 5:48 AM, Dobbins, Daniel M wrote:
Derby-dev;
I am evaluating the Apache Derby product with respect to the
licensing requirements and there is one file (fo2html.xsl) in the
Derby product that contains a Copyright as shown below.
<snip/>
*/Dan Dobbins/***
*817.**935.5431***
*/Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company /*
/Software Product Manager/
*/Systems Software Engineering Environments – S/SEE/*
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
_____________________________________________
Hi Dan,
That xsl script is used to build Derby documentation. Typically, users
do not ship that build machinery with their Derby-powered products.
Instead, users just ship the compiled Derby jar files. I am fairly
certain that we have been complete about making sure that the source
code used to produce those jar files is covered by the liberal
redistribution terms of the Apache 2.0 license:
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
What you pointed out, however, is troubling to me. Another sister
script in that same directory of build machinery (dita2fo-links.xsl)
has even more disturbing licensing terms: "(c) Copyright IBM Corp.
2004, 2005 All Rights Reserved." This build machinery has been shipped
with the Derby source distributions since release 10.3.
At this point, I think that the Derby developers need to have a
conversation about why our source distributions have been carrying
these licensing terms since release 10.3.
Thanks for bringing this problem to our attention.
-Rick
This actually came up back in Feb 2006 [1] . I'll see if I can chase
down an email pointer to a complete (hopefully coherent) explanation
since this link just starts the question.
-jean
[1]
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/db-derby-dev/200602.mbox/%[email protected]%3E
