Thanks Justin. And yes you're right Jersey is CDDL + GPL license.

>From above I see, we need to add CDDL & EPL to NOTICE for Jersey and
hawtjini respectively.

Please let me know if this suffice from Apex's perspective for packing with
bigtop.

Thanks,
Chinmay.



On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 4:06 AM, Justin Mclean <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >  - Both of these are ASF 2 licensed:
> >     - https://github.com/fusesource/jansi-native/blob/master/license.txt
> >     - https://github.com/fusesource/hawtjni/blob/master/license.txt
>
> Neither of these repo have a NOTICE so there noting that need rot be added
> to NOTICE.
>
> Note however hawtjini includes some EPL licensed software which is
> category B see [1]
>
> > 5. Jersey libraries
> >  - Jar is duel licensed : CDDL + BSD with class path exception
>
> It it was CDDL + BSD you could use BSD at that is category A), however
> it’s dual licensed CDDL + GPL and GPL is category X and we can’t use that.
>
> CDDL (like EPL) is category B - again see [1].
>
> > What changes do you suggest needs to be done to NOTICE file in case for
> > this purpose? Can you please provide an example?
>
> Previous advice on legal discuss has said to add CDDL to NOTICE as CDDLs
> license requires you to point users to the source code.
>
> Here’s some examples. [2][3][4] However I found just as many example that
> don’t follow this policy and a recent discussion on legal @ discuss seems
> to of have confused the matter more. I’ll see what I can do to get some
> clarity on this.
>
> > We checked hadoop package (rpm&deb) of bigtop, and it has jersey-server
> > library bundled. But we could not locate any NOTICE file indicating the
> use
> > of it
>
> For a variety of reasons other projects may or may not have complete or
> 100% correct LICENSE / NOTICE files.
>
> Thanks,
> Justin
>
> 1. http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b
> 2. https://github.com/apache/servicemix/blob/master/NOTICE
> 3.
> https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-ambari-bundle/nifi-ambari-nar/src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE
> 4
> https://github.com/apache/olingo-odata2/blob/master/odata2-lib/odata-web/src/main/resources/META-INF/NOTICE
>
>

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