Bug#573482: Jackrabbit 1.5 License not free? for Debian/Ubuntu inclusion

[Miguel Landaeta]

Hi Torsten,

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:23:34AM +0200, Torsten Werner wrote:
> where did you look? Just download
> <http://www.day.com/content/dam/day/downloads/jcr-ri-1.0.zip>. The link
> can be found at the page mentioned above. The file ships the text of the
> Apache-2.0 license in the file licenses/day-ri-license.txt. There is an
> additional restriction regarding derivative work that sounds harmless to me:

Maybe I misunderstood this. The RI for JCR (Jackrabbit) is
free software licensed under Apache-2.0, but I was looking for
the source code of JCR 1.0 or 2.0 specs (javax.jcr) to see if 
I could package jackrabbit, but I didn't found anything on
Day website.

In particular, I didn't like this paragraph from the
license:

"This RI License applies only to Licensor's Reference Implementation
and Derivative Works thereof; the Specification is made available
separately at a location described by the NOTICE file and is not
included within the Work made available under this RI License."

I suck reading legalese anyway, but the spec is not included
in that zip file. I could only get the spec source from Maven
central repo or JCR website and unfortunately that code
doesn't mention any license (only Day copyright statements
with "All Rights reserved").

Cheers,

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