[fedora-java] Including classes from Sun's demo code in a Fedora package

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazqueznet at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 16:21:46 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 17:16 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> 2009/2/9 Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>:
> > On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 13:53 +0100, Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> >> Is this a showstopper for the package in question? Both of the Sun
> >> demo files are BSD-licensed, while simplyhtml is GPL, if that's
> >> relevant ...
> >
> > Do they have the notorious "no nukes" clause?
> 
> Ooh, good thought -- unfortunately, yes, looks like they do. Guess the
> only option is to patch the application not to use these classes,
> right? :(

Three options: remove, relicense, replace.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet at gmail.com>

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