I reopened LEGAL-296

Jacques


Le 13/04/2017 à 22:42, Jacques Le Roux a écrit :
Yes it's indeed possible that we keep it. It's only 1 file, a bit more editable than a DTD and not really a standard, but kind of in the Birt ecosystem.

I tend to agree with Marvin https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-296?focusedCommentId=15952957&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-15952957

that the exceptions should exist by projects and on request. We can ask legal for this one since it's really on the edge unlike the case we sorted with LEGAL-296

And yes we removed the webapp but the ChartReport.ftl and Report.ftl continue 
to work well as long as the birt.tld file is there.

I'll create a new LEGAL Jira!

Thanks

Jacques


Le 13/04/2017 à 19:44, Taher Alkhateeb a écrit :
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





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