Advice on licenses for submitting included sources

[Rob Walker <ro...@ascert.com>]

I now have a "mangen" version which I've updated to use the newer Felix 
searchpolicy classes.

The present version has two external components included in source form:

    * mini-bcel - a heavily stripped down version of BCEL, with headers
    under an Apache 1.1 license
    * asm - originally from ObjectWeb and (c) France Telecom, but under
    an open source BSD style license that I believe would permit it's
    submission to the Felix SVN

    In fact these are "either / or" components - since mangen can be
    configured to use either a BCEL class scanner or an ASM class scanner.

Long term - I guess for the ASM part, it would be better to pull in an 
ASM Jar from a suitable repository using Maven. The "mini-bcel" part 
could be moved to full BCEL - this would result in needing a much bigger 
BCEL JAR, since the stripped version is way smaller and just includes 
the essential classes.

Problem I have right now is time - I'd like to submit mangen sooner 
rather than later, and I don't have time to look at changing making 
mangen and build to work in this way. Once in SVN, either I or someone 
else can look at tidying this area up later?

So - is it legitimate and ok for me to submit these sources as-is, 
leaving them with their respective license headers?

-- Rob


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Re: Advice on licenses for submitting included sources

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

Rob,

If possible, it seems the easier solution is to just switch both to 
Maven dependencies right now. ASM probably should anyway, since it is so 
small. For BCEL you can worry about making a small version later. I know 
for a fact that ASM is available in a maven repo because iPOJO depends 
on it. I would assume BCEL is available somewhere too.

-> richard

Rob Walker wrote:
> I now have a "mangen" version which I've updated to use the newer 
> Felix searchpolicy classes.
>
> The present version has two external components included in source form:
>
>    * mini-bcel - a heavily stripped down version of BCEL, with headers
>    under an Apache 1.1 license
>    * asm - originally from ObjectWeb and (c) France Telecom, but under
>    an open source BSD style license that I believe would permit it's
>    submission to the Felix SVN
>
>    In fact these are "either / or" components - since mangen can be
>    configured to use either a BCEL class scanner or an ASM class scanner.
>
> Long term - I guess for the ASM part, it would be better to pull in an 
> ASM Jar from a suitable repository using Maven. The "mini-bcel" part 
> could be moved to full BCEL - this would result in needing a much 
> bigger BCEL JAR, since the stripped version is way smaller and just 
> includes the essential classes.
>
> Problem I have right now is time - I'd like to submit mangen sooner 
> rather than later, and I don't have time to look at changing making 
> mangen and build to work in this way. Once in SVN, either I or someone 
> else can look at tidying this area up later?
>
> So - is it legitimate and ok for me to submit these sources as-is, 
> leaving them with their respective license headers?
>
> -- Rob
>
>
> Ascert - Taking systems to the Edge
> robw@ascert.com
> +44 (0)20 7488 3470
> www.ascert.com
>
>