Pascal Bleser wrote:
On 2012-04-20 15:58:21 (+0200), Ludwig Nussel
wrote: [...] and you probably don't even know what license that random dump of bundled jars has.
That is indeed quite a task but from more than 10 years of day to day experience of coding with java (and lots of open source java libraries and bits), I can say that the set is large (as said, there is a huge amount of open source software in java, and a high degree of reuse of libraries), but it's not totally random. What I mean to say, I guess, is that you keep running into mostly the same jars.
How large is that common set? Maybe having the top most used jars would help reduce the amount of extra jars an applications pcakager needs to care for.
[...] The same accounts for non-java stuff too though, you can run into libraries written in C that say "GPL" on freshmeat (or freshcode, as it's called now) but effectively has different copyrights in individual source code files in its archive.
That isn't nearly as common as with java I guess and we have the automatic licence digger in Factory to detect such bastards.
Calling it non-free is the closest match.
Sorry, are you saying the Apache Software License or the GPL/LGPL is not considered "oss" any more? Surely you're not.
Well, the random samples I've seen recently had proprietary .jars bundled in software that said it's GPL. I don't know what the result of such a bundling is, but I as user feel fooled if that's called free software. So even if an application claims it's GPL but crucial components of it are proprietary you can't put that into an 'oss' repo. Maybe it's even illegal to put something like that anywhere. Only a lawyer can tell but IANAL. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org