Re: License terms for hessian 3.0.13 download

On Jun 13, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Simon Kitching wrote:

> Hi,
>

Thanks, Simon.

I've added this as a bug at http://bugs.caucho.com/view.php?id=1198.
We'll clean up the files and the build for the next release (which is
expected in 4-6 weeks).

-- Scott

> The website "http://www.caucho.com/hessian" states that this
> download is
> licensed under "The Apache License".
>
> In general, the source files do contain an ASL1.1 license clause.
> However
> some of the source files instead contain a GPL license statement,
> particularly:
> com/caucho/hessian/*.java
> com/caucho/hessian/micro/*.java
>
> If this download is truly intended to be available under the Apache
> Software
> License version 1.1, I would greatly appreciate it if you could do the
> following:
>
> (a) update the source files to contain the appropriate license
> (b) add a text file containing the license to the source distribution
> (c) ideally, include the license in the META-INF directory of the
> jarfile
> for future builds
> (d) put a statement on the website indicating that 3.0.13 really is
> intended
> to be licensed
> under the ASL1.1, despite the source code. Alternatively, a 3.0.14
> release with the
> above changes would solve the issue.
>
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> Simon
>
>
>
Received on Wed 14 Jun 2006 10:09:24 -0700