[jcifs] Licensing issues in jcifs package

[Asaf Mesika]

There's no point in adding GPL license to it, since the library code is
LGPL.

2009/5/20 Michal Vyskocil <mvyskocil at suse.cz>

> 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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