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Posted to legal-discuss@apache.org by Henri Yandell <ba...@apache.org> on 2010/05/16 09:08:11 UTC

Re: [jira] Created: (LEGAL-72) Can 7Zip SDK be used in Apache products?

Sounds like something for Sebb to take up with the author.

Most crucial points:

* What is the licensing of the download?
* What about the UnRAR code, was that put in the public domain as
well, or removed?

Hen

On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Marshall Schor <ms...@schor.com> wrote:
> This may take more investigation.
>
> The home page for the site, at http://www.7-zip.org says that the most
> of the code is under the GNU LGPL, and gives this pointer:
> http://www.7-zip.org/license.txt
>
> which is certainly different from what the other page says.
>
> -Marshall Schor
>
> On 5/15/2010 5:41 AM, Sebb (JIRA) wrote:
>> Can 7Zip SDK be used in Apache products?
>> ----------------------------------------
>>
>>                  Key: LEGAL-72
>>                  URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-72
>>              Project: Legal Discuss
>>           Issue Type: Question
>>             Reporter: Sebb
>>
>>
>> http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html says:
>>
>>                                     License
>>
>> LZMA SDK is placed in the public domain.
>>
>> Is this acceptable for inclusion within Apache products?
>> As a binary dependency?
>> As source, which is then modified?
>>
>>
>
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