[Fedora-legal-list] License of jnlp-servlet.jar - part of Oracle JDK

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi all,

I added Dalibor from Oracle to the CC, who has been helpful cleaning up
some license issues around java in the past.

On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 22:53 +0100, Manuel Faux wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 22:48:57 +0100
> Mikolaj Izdebski <mizdebsk at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On 11/11/2013 10:43 PM, Adam Saunders wrote:
> > > This is the 3-Clause BSD license, listed in the Fedora licensing
> > > list as "BSD License (no advertising)". Any software licensed under
> > > this license is a candidate for inclusion in Fedora.
> > 
> > Unfortunately the quoted license is non-free because it limits usage
> > rights ("this software is not [...] licensed [...] for use in [...]").
> > It would be free if the word "licensed" was removed from the last
> > paragraph.
> > 
> I was afraid that this is a breaker.

Dalibor, the code in question is (also) part of the latest "Java SE
Development Kit 7u45 Demos and Samples Downloads" as found here:
http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u45-b18-demos/jdk-7u45-linux-x64-demos.tar.gz
Which is released under the "Oracle BSD License":
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/oraclebsd-1603217.txt

You will note that "Oracle BSD License" is actually the simple 3-Clause
BSD license without the extra restriction mentioned above.

None of the source files in this demos and samples bundle, except for
the source files under sample/jnlp/, have this extra restriction added.

And the source files under sample/jnlp carry almost the same terms (at
least the 3-clause BSD) and refer to Oracle, except in the disclaimer
text (the part in ALL CAPS). Which refers to Sun Microsystems. None of
the other source files in this bundle refer to Sun Microsystems.

Might this just be a copy/paste error in these source files, and should
the sample/jnlp source files really just carry the standard "Oracle BSD
License" like the rest of the demo and sample source files in that
bundle? If so, could you help us get this fixed so that these samples
can also be included in Fedora?

Thanks,

Mark