[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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