Hi Sott. can you help?
You brought up the licensing concerns. We tried to talk to the licensing people at Eclipse and i am trying to solve a licensing problem as a middleman i do not understand. Could you please clarify with the people at lice...@eclipse.org and in particular mike.milinkov...@eclipse.org your concerns? I am unable to solve the problem you brought up. Regards,, Hans This is the last conversation we had up to now: We sent the following message: > We would like to ask for approval of the inclusion of the BIRT runtime > with Apache OFBiz because we have concerns in the ofbiz community of > we can include the runtime. > one of our committers found the following license problems: >> I checked out the branch and had a look, I see a large number of >> javascript and jsp source files that are EPL licensed and I'm >> pretty sure that we cannot include them. >> >> Additionally and this one is a little more obscure and I could >> quite possibly be wrong but the dteapi.jar file contains a >> javax.olap package and the only reference I can find to that >> package is jsr-69 (http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=069). According >> to that page the jsr never reached Final Release and the Proposed >> Final Draft was licensed under an evaluation license. Birt has >> written the source code for the interfaces defined by the >> specification themselves and licensed it as EPL but I have know >> idea whether they were legally allowed to do that. could you please clarify these concerns? His answer was: --------------- Thanks for bringing your enquiry here. The birt-dev list is not equipped to handle licensing questions. First of all, the usual caveats apply. I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. But first, I have some questions. When you say “redistribute”, what do you mean? The EPL allows the redistribution of source code under the EPL; binaries may be re-licensed. When you say “under the EPL license it is allowed to re-distribute small amounts of source like javascript and jsp's when it is unlikely it is changed”, if you are suggesting that EPL source code can be re-licensed under (say) the Apache license, you are mistaken. EPL source code can never be re-licensed. However, as per the Apache Foundation Third Party Licensing Policy, Apache projects can use and distribute EPL-licensed binaries. Reading between the lines I suspect that the issue you are grappling with is that JavaScript does not really distinguish between source code and binary code. If so, let us know and we will keep trying to help you guys out. Mike Milinkovich Office: +1.613.224.9461 x228 Mobile: +1.613.220.3223 mike.milinkov...@eclipse.org -- Antwebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive rates
