There is this one from the NOTICE that I wanted to bring up before
FINAL.
A single resource file of the POI scratchpad component HDGF is taken
from
VSDump, and is under the GNU General Public Licence version 3 (GPL
v3):
http://gplv3.fsf.org/
Since this is a data file, and has no compiled version (the original
file is distributed in both source and binary versions of POI),
there should
be little difference in licencing requirements compared to the ASL.
For those wishing to avoid this component, the HDGF part of the POI
scratchpad should be omitted.
See http://www.gnome.ru/projects/vsdump_en.html
This is used by the class. o.a.p.hdgf.HDGFLZW. Are we good with this
one?
An LZW implementation, do we need to worry about Unisys?
Regards,
Dave
On Dec 7, 2008, at 10:27 PM, Andrew Oliver wrote:
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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