Re: potential legal problem

[Peter Donald <do...@apache.org>]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:45, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I just checked out all the avalon modules and found something very bad:
>
>  jakarta-excalibur/lib/bytecode.jar
>
> which includes packages such as "gnu.*"
>
> Now, I grepped around and found no use of this library, neither any
> indication of what license it has (hopefully LGPL).
>
> Anyway, the ASF has a policy against using any xGPL java code because of
> possible legal infection problems with the GPL.

Theres no legal issues and it has already been cleared with Brian among other 
people. That said I don't think we need it anymore - especially now that bcel 
is ata Apache ;)

> Please, remove that library ASAP and the code it might break and recheck
> it in once a solution is found.
>
> Thanks.

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Cheers,

Pete

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