This is a pretty biggy.  I used to do periodic license audits.  Are we
sure this is the only problem?

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Jukka Zitting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The GPLv3 does seem to allow (GPLv3 section 4) verbatim copies of such
>> source files without the the viral effects, but any modifications
>> (GPLv3 section 5) to the chunkds_parse_cmds.tbl file would require
>> licensing entire POI under that license.
>
> Thinking about this a bit more I figured that this reasoning just
> doesn't work. HDGF is a "work based on" chunks_parse_cmds.tbl, and
> thus falls under section 5 of GPLv3.
>
> Unless we can get the original author to grant as an alternative
> license to the file, it should be removed or replaced in one way or
> another. I filed bug #46361 [1] for this.
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46361
>
> BR,
>
> Jukka Zitting
>
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