Felix Common: Licensining Questions

[Stefano Lenzi <ki...@interfree.it>]

Hi All,

I'd like to how licensing should be handled within the Felix Common 
bundle. Is there any project inside common which I can use as reference?

Also I think that some steps about licensing should added to the guide:
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FELIX/Creating+Bundles+Using+BND


Ciao,
Stefano "Kismet" Lenzi

Re: Felix Common: Licensining Questions

[Niclas Hedhman <ni...@hedhman.org>]

On Friday 21 September 2007 03:47, Richard S. Hall wrote:
> The only potential issue is if the original JAR file is distributed
> under a license that does not allow any modification, then we cannot
> provide a wrapper for it.

Well, we can always store the Jar inside a bundle Jar with the correct 
manifest. I presume you refer to mostly Sun's extension jars, such as mail, 
servlet and so forth.

The really tricky bits are for GPL'd stuff. ASF doesn't allow hosting of nor 
distribution of GPL'd stuff from its infrastructure. And the resulting 
modified OSGi bundle must be GPL'd, hence we can't have that here in Felix at 
all.


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Re: Felix Common: Licensining Questions

["Richard S. Hall" <he...@ungoverned.org>]

I think the licensing issue is pretty straightforward from my point of 
view. We are only adding a manifest to the existing JAR file, thus there 
are no licensing issues, the license stays the same as what it was.

The only potential issue is if the original JAR file is distributed 
under a license that does not allow any modification, then we cannot 
provide a wrapper for it.

Or were you getting at something else?

-> richard

Stefano Lenzi wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'd like to how licensing should be handled within the Felix Common 
> bundle. Is there any project inside common which I can use as reference?
>
> Also I think that some steps about licensing should added to the guide:
> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FELIX/Creating+Bundles+Using+BND 
>
>
>
> Ciao,
> Stefano "Kismet" Lenzi