Henri,
Thanks for pushing this and also doing an audit/survey of our dependency
jars.
I was surprised to see the the BCL jars mentioned. Are Sun BCL
redistributables also not kosher here? This is the first time I've
heard of that, and I don't quite understand the rationale, (as opposed
to LGPL, where I think I do). Is this due to the US export restriction
compliance clause? Pointer to some description of this issue on Apache?
--a.
Henri Yandell wrote:
Problems, problems. Which I really hate to bring up as I want Roller
to succeed as an Apache project as much as anyone.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/roller/trunk/tools/lib/
We have 4 LGPL (ekit, ekit-applet, jazzy, mm.mysql), 2 BCL (mail,
activation) jars in there.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/roller/trunk/tools/hibernate-3.0/lib/
jta and jdbc-stdext are BCL.
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/roller/trunk/tools/hibernate-3.0/
hibernate is LGPL.
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So at least 5 LGPL jars and 4 BCL jars. As far as I know, we're not
meant to have these in SVN, and that the imports on the LGPL jars are
not meant to be in SVN either.
Now I know that this was well known before Roller joined, so what's
the status of this? What I've read on legal-discuss/board is not the
same as the message we're giving Roller, so I'm confused. On
roller-dev, Noel has said:
"Check with Cliff, but I believe that projects will be given a
timeframe with which to eliminate LGPL dependencies. It isn't a legal
(as in viral) so much as policy issue. We would certainly need
appropriate notices, in addition to the Incubator disclaimer."
As far as I know, that's for the imports not for the inclusion in
distributions/SVN. It's also going through one of its customary
dead-in-the-water periods regarding becoming new policy.
We (roller-dev) will also need the Incubator PMC to create
'appropriate notices', depending on what you mean by that. [I'm a part
of both, so this isn't me shirking work :) ].
So what's the deal? How do I make a release of Roller, ie) what needs
to be different from a normal release; and how do I explain this to
Cliff without it sounding like we're ignoring the lawyers.
Hen
