Rhino issue, was [RESULT] Publish Tuscany M1 release - 2nd vote

[Jeremy Boynes <jb...@apache.org>]

On 5/31/06, Jeremy Boynes <jb...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> The IPMC vote also passed with +1's from dims, jim, pzf, stoddard and
> jstrachan so we are now free to post the distributions.
>

Well, that may have been premature.

Noel asked for confirmation about the licensing terms on Rhino and
asked we check with Cliff about redistribution of MPL code. However,
it seems from here
http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html#to-be-relicensed that
Rhino was not relicensed under MPL is under the NPL1.1 license. NPL1.1
is on Cliff's list as "banned for now but to be reexamined":
http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html

To be safe I think we should respin the distribution without the Rhino
jar in it and update the readme with instructions telling people where
it can be downloaded from.

I assume the Tomcat server will still work without Rhino provided
people don't use the JavaScript container. We should probably check
that though.

An alternative may be to use the forked version of Rhino at
cocoondev.org which I believe is still under MPL. However, I see two
issues there:
1) I think it is a fork of 1.5 and so may not have the e4x support
2) The MPL license on it may not be valid. We should investigate what
caused Mozilla to revert Rhino to NPL and see if that impacted the MPL
relicensing of the version that the original fork was based on.

--
Jeremy

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Re: Rhino issue, was [RESULT] Publish Tuscany M1 release - 2nd vote

[Jeremy Boynes <jb...@apache.org>]

On 6/1/06, Jeremy Boynes <jb...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 5/31/06, Jeremy Boynes <jb...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> > The IPMC vote also passed with +1's from dims, jim, pzf, stoddard and
> > jstrachan so we are now free to post the distributions.
> >
>
> Well, that may have been premature.
>
> Noel asked for confirmation about the licensing terms on Rhino and
> asked we check with Cliff about redistribution of MPL code. However,
> it seems from here
> http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/relicensing-faq.html#to-be-relicensed that
> Rhino was not relicensed under MPL is under the NPL1.1 license. NPL1.1
> is on Cliff's list as "banned for now but to be reexamined":
> http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html
>
> To be safe I think we should respin the distribution without the Rhino
> jar in it and update the readme with instructions telling people where
> it can be downloaded from.
>

After clarification from Cliff we can proceed with the release once we
have updated the NOTICE/LICENSE files to reflect NPL instead of MPL.

Sebastien, can you handle cutting a new distribution?
Thanks
--
Jeremy

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