2013/1/3 Andy Seaborne <[email protected]> > On 03/01/13 13:24, Fabian Christ wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> just two things that come to my mind from the experiences we made with >> importing the first code for Stanbol from the IKS project. >> >> Do you know of the use of any third party libs that are either >> >> a) not available via Maven central >> b) licensed under terms that are not compatible with the Apache License, >> 2.0? (e.g. GPL) >> >> For a): If libs are not available in Maven central we need to create >> appropriate "-deps" packages that contain everything needed for the build. >> Source releases of Marmotta are not allowed to include any binaries, like >> JAR files. This can be a struggling point for the build process. >> >> For b): Dealing with licensing issues can slow down the release process >> tremendously. Knowing of modules which may by problematic before importing >> them could make things easier. >> >> Best, >> - Fabian >> > > I completely agree with Fabian that sorting licenses can slow down the > release. It's not something to leave until everything else is ready. >
We have always been careful with licensing for the LMF. To the best of my knowledge, the only incompatible library is XOM, which is still used in some places. I wanted to wait with rewriting to JDOM until we are finished with refactoring, but then it should be easy. I'll look through the rest of the mails today and add comments - just returned from vacations ;-) Sebastian
