[jira] Commented: (LEGAL-50) Day spec license with addendum

["Henri Yandell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Henri Yandell commented on LEGAL-50:
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Spec license, so I see why it wants to limit modification. I don't see a huge urge on our part to want to modify it - but it's feasible that the JSR could go stagnant and we want to fix a bug. Really it's only the public API of the spec that should remain unmodified and we should have the right to modify the internal private code.

We need to have http://www.day.com/maven/jsr170/licenses/day-spec-license.htm looked at. I'll admit to not understanding it all. Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 all confuse me; though it is nice to see a spec jar under a spec discussing license. 

> Day spec license with addendum
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LEGAL-50
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-50
>             Project: Legal Discuss
>          Issue Type: Question
>            Reporter: Jukka Zitting
>
> The JCR API jar file is available under the terms of the Day spec license [1] and the addendum [2]. The essential part of the addendum says:
>     In addition to the permissions granted under the Specification
>     License, Day Management AG hereby grants to You a perpetual,
>     worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable
>     license to reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform,
>     sublicense, and distribute unmodified copies of the Content
>     Repository for Java Technology API (JCR 1.0) Java Archive (JAR)
>     file ("jcr-1.0.jar") and to make, have made, use, offer to sell,
>     sell, import, and otherwise transfer said file on its own or
>     as part of a larger work that makes use of the JCR API.
> This is pretty much similar to the LEGAL-36 case where broad rights are given to redistribute *unmodified* versions of the file. The consensus seems to be that such dependencies are OK and can be embedded in binaries, but that such unmodifiable files should not be kept in our svn.
> [1] http://www.day.com/maven/jsr170/licenses/day-spec-license.htm
> [2] http://www.day.com/maven/jsr170/jars/LICENSE.txt

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