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

[Hendy Irawan]

Following is a response from Stefan Guggisberg.

So the Jackrabbit is Apache Licensed, where the JSR-170 (JCR API) JAR is
licensed under the license below.

I don't think there is a problem with this license to be included in
anything, except the fact the JCR's source code is not available. Is it
really not possible that the JCR JAR be included into Debian as a binary
file?

The JSR-170 license ( http://www.day.com/maven/jsr170/jars/LICENSE.txt )
says:

In addition to the permissions granted under the Specification
> License, Day Management AG hereby grants to You a perpetual,
> worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable
> license to reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform,
> sublicense, and distribute unmodified copies of the Content
> Repository for Java Technology API (JCR 1.0) Java Archive (JAR)
> file ("jcr-1.0.jar") and to make, have made, use, offer to sell,
> sell, import, and otherwise transfer said file on its own or
> as part of a larger work that makes use of the JCR API.
>
> With respect to any patent claims covered by this license
> that would be infringed by all technically feasible implementations
> of the Specification, such license is conditioned upon your
> offering on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms,
> to any party seeking it from You, a perpetual, non-exclusive,
> non-transferable, worldwide license under Your patent rights
> that are or would be infringed by all technically feasible
> implementations of the Specification to develop, distribute
> and use a Compliant Implementation.
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stefan Guggisberg [via Jackrabbit] <
ml-node+1590284-1697058918-81051 at n4.nabble.com<ml-node%2B1590284-1697058918-81051 at n4.nabble.com>
>
Date: Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: Jackrabbit 1.5 License not free? for Debian/Ubuntu inclusion
To: Hendy Irawan <hendy at soluvas.com>


On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Hendy Irawan <[hidden
email]<http://n4.nabble.com/user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=1590284&i=0>>
wrote:

>
> Dear Jackrabbit community,
>
> I was trying to make Maven DAV Wagon (which uses Jackrabbit 1.5) into
> Debian/Ubuntu. The bug report is here:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=573482 and
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537562
>
> However preliminary discussion gets into license issues because JCR 1.0,
> part of Jackrabbit 1.5, is not free and hence cannot be put into a distro
> such as Debian and Ubuntu. Is this true?

IANAL and certainly not familiar with the Debian and Ubuntu license
terms. here's the relevant JCR 1.0 specification license:
http://www.day.com/maven/jsr170/licenses/day-spec-license.htm

and a related post:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox//jackrabbit-dev/200706.mbox/%3CE4DE9655-632E-4303-8223-B2A717028117@...%3E<http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox//jackrabbit-dev/200706.mbox/%3CE4DE9655-632E-4303-8223-B2A717028117@gbiv.com%3E>

cheers
stefan

>
> Ludovic Claude proposes that if the Maven DAV Wagon uses Jackrabbit 2.0
(JCR
> 2.0) it will be okay. Is this truly the case? I thought that Jackrabbit
2.0
> is still JCR 1.0-compliant hence still contains JCR 1.0 code which is
> non-free.
>
> Is there a better solution to solve this licensing problem without
patching
> Maven DAV Wagon (which may not be a trivial task)? Thank you.
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