Hi

Is there a reason that the demos can't be relicensed to the Apache license?

I found them extremely valuable in getting up to speed, and it's a
nuisance for new people to checkout code from multiple sources.

Regards, Noel.

Todd Volkert wrote:
> All:
>
> For those of you not on the [email protected] or
> [email protected] lists, there has been an active discussion
> today about whether it is OK to keep code in your subversion
> repository that is not apache-license-friendly.  The gist is that it
> is recommended not to do so, and if you decide to forego that
> recommendation, it is strongly recommended that you segregate such
> code away from the compliant code within your SVN hierarchy.
>
> As such, I've made the following changes:
>
> * I've migrated our demos out of the repository -- they now live at
> http://code.google.com/p/pivot-demos/.  I've added you all to that
> sub-project, so you should have write access to that repository.  If
> you don't, let me know.
>
> * I've migrated the JFreeChart provider out of the repository -- it
> now lives at http://code.google.com/p/pivot-jfree/.  Again, I've added
> you all to that sub-project.
>
> We're hoping to get the JFreeChart provider eventually integrated
> directly into JFreeChart itself (Greg is discussing this with the
> owner of JFreeChart), so that was always destined to go away.  As for
> the demos, some could have stayed without any issues, but it seemed
> cleaner to just migrate them all, thus freeing us from any future
> licensing worries when writing demos.
>
> All this really means to you is that if you want to work on a demo or
> the JFreeChart provider, you'll need to checkout from those other
> repositories.  Everything in the main repository still builds as it
> always did - just without demos.
>
> Let me know if you have any questions,
> -T
>   

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