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Posted to dev@poi.apache.org by "Jean T. Anderson" <jt...@bristowhill.com> on 2008/10/07 19:59:11 UTC
Question about license of a file in poi-scratchpad-3.1-FINAL-20080629.jar
Greetings all,
My day job is using POI on a project, and somebody noticed that
org/apache/poi/hdgf/chunks/chunks_parse_cmds.tbl in
poi-scratchpad-3.1-FINAL-20080629.jar has a GNU Version 3 license.
I spotted an issue for another file
(https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45177), but don't
spot anything for chunks_parse_cmds.tbl, and don't find GPL 3 among the
automatically allowed licenses at http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html.
Realizing that license decisions sometimes are made on a case by case
basis, I wanted to find out if this file is deliberately included and
not an "oops".
thanks in advance,
-jean
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Re: Question about license of a file in poi-scratchpad-3.1-FINAL-20080629.jar
Posted by "Jean T. Anderson" <jt...@bristowhill.com>.
Nick Burch wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Jean T. Anderson wrote:
>> My day job is using POI on a project, and somebody noticed that
>> org/apache/poi/hdgf/chunks/chunks_parse_cmds.tbl in
>> poi-scratchpad-3.1-FINAL-20080629.jar has a GNU Version 3 license.
>
> You might find it worth reading:
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk/legal/NOTICE
>
Thanks for the pointer -- very helpful as it addresses my question as to
whether it was a deliberate decision.
> chunks_parse_cmds.tbl is a textual data file, and never has a binary
> form - in license terms it's always in it's source format, however
> it's distributed.
Hmmm, http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html seems to also cover text
files:
"XML and Text Configuration files under Category B licenses
The current license policy only allows source files to be included
under a Category A license, not a Category B license (binary only).
Therefore, XML and text files covered by a Category B license cannot be
included in an Apache product. Whether this places a significant burden
on PMCs will be reevaluated in six months."
But it also sounds like the 3party.html is still in a "proposed" stage.
thanks for the clarification, Nick,
-jean
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Re: Question about license of a file in
poi-scratchpad-3.1-FINAL-20080629.jar
Posted by Nick Burch <ni...@torchbox.com>.
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Jean T. Anderson wrote:
> My day job is using POI on a project, and somebody noticed that
> org/apache/poi/hdgf/chunks/chunks_parse_cmds.tbl in
> poi-scratchpad-3.1-FINAL-20080629.jar has a GNU Version 3 license.
You might find it worth reading:
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/poi/trunk/legal/NOTICE
chunks_parse_cmds.tbl is a textual data file, and never has a binary form
- in license terms it's always in it's source format, however it's
distributed.
Nick
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