I'm not an quite sure (I'm always bad with legalese) , but would this not qualify as category B [1] kind of source? It's a tag library needed at runtime as mentioned in the "Viewer Tag Library" header in [2]. Are we using the viewer for that matter or did we remove it completely?
[1] http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-b [2] http://www.eclipse.org/birt/documentation/integrating/viewer-usage.php On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Jacques Le Roux < jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: > Hi, > > While working on HELP_BIRT.xml, I have found another issue regarding the > birt component and the Birt license (EPL v1) > > It's said at > > https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl/notice.php > > that all source maintained in the Birt repository is licensed under EPL v1 > > The birt.tld file we use to render the example reports > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/ofbiz/ofbiz-plugins/trunk/b > irt/webapp/birt/WEB-INF/birt.tld > > is not a simple file and was wrongly licensed with a ASL2 header. > > The ChartReport.ftl and Report.ftl needs the birt.tld file and > unfortunately reading > > http://freemarker.org/docs/pgui_misc_servlet.html > > it seems we can't refer to an URL, like > > https://github.com/EclispeBIRT/org.eclipse.birt/blob/master/ > viewer/org.eclipse.birt.report.viewer/birt/WEB-INF/tlds/birt.tld > > So I'm afraid we need to remove the 2 reports FTL examples and the > birt.tld. > > We can still use the example.rptdesign and chart.rptdesign in other ways. > Like we do for other reports or as examples for the Flexible Reports but > I'm not sure it's worth the effort. > > What do you think? > > Jacques > >
