[jcifs] Licensing issues in jcifs package

Michal Vyskocil mvyskocil at suse.cz
Wed May 20 09:47:47 GMT 2009


Hi,

I'm working on jcifs packages for SUSE. Our legal team found some licensing 
issues in source tarball you offer.

1.) examples/Format.java contains the following license:
|  * All Rights Reserved.
|  *
|  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this 
|  * software and its documentation for NON-COMMERCIAL purposes
|  * and without fee is hereby granted provided that this 
|  * copyright notice appears in all copies. 
|  * 
|  * THE AUTHORS AND PUBLISHER MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR 
|  * WARRANTIES ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE SOFTWARE, EITHER 
|  * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE 
|  * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A 
|  * PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. THE AUTHORS
|  * AND PUBLISHER SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED 
|  * BY LICENSEE AS A RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING 
|  * THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS DERIVATIVES.
|  */

and this is not an opensource license [1] and I removed it from tarball. 

2.) examples/SmbShell.java depends on Format.java. This might be a problem, 
because GPL code cannot depends on GPL incompatible one - so I removed it from 
our tarball too.

3.) GPLv [2] (point 6) and LGPL [3] (point 10) says that you need to 
distribute a copy of license with a Program, so please include them to the 
archive.

[1] http://opensource.org/docs/osd
[2] http://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.php
[3] http://opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.php


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