[jira] Commented: (CONNECTORS-4) Submit other package changes supplied with software grant upstream to the proper projects

["Karl Wright (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Karl Wright commented on CONNECTORS-4:
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HttpClient team wants us to upgrade to their latest release, which is 4.1.  They claim this fixes 2 of the 3 patches I submitted.  For the record, the patches were submitted under tickets:

HTTPCLIENT-917
HTTPCLIENT-918
HTTPCLIENT-919

The one they rejected outright was ticket HTTPCLIENT-919, for reasons that they believed it violated Apache policy as pertaining to potential IP infringement, specifically because NTLM is a proprietary authentication and authorization scheme.  There was no indication that they were aware of any specific patent issues, but that apparently is not the key point.

If this reasoning stands, I intend to create two additional tickets - one for moving to HttpClient 4.1, and one for modifying the build scripts to obtain an appropriate NTLM implementation from some non-Apache open-source project.


> Submit other package changes supplied with software grant upstream to the proper projects
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CONNECTORS-4
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CONNECTORS-4
>             Project: Lucene Connector Framework
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: Karl Wright
>            Assignee: Karl Wright
>
> The code granted by MetaCarta depends on certain specific feature additions and changes MetaCarta made to some packages it depends upon, specifically jCIFS, commons-httpclient, and xerces-j.  These changes should be percolated accordingly.  They can be found in the tarball under the directory "upstream-diffs".

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