From: Jarek C. <jar...@po...> - 2012-03-05 07:53:18
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W dniu 2012-02-27 09:19, Jarek Czekalski pisze: > (...) Some > files, like JavaSideKickParsedData, have gnu license note. > AntClassLoader has Apache license. Looks like all these licenses are > compatible with gnu gpl and may be included to a gnu gpl package. This statement is false, at least false with GNU GPL 2. Apache code cannot be legally distributed under GNU GPL 2. Here is the explanation: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#apache2 If we want to have a clean legal status, we should relicense the JavaSideKick code under Apache. So I ask the authors of the plugin to remove all GNU GPL 2 license notes and add an Apache2 license.txt file to the root of the plugin. Otherwise distributing JavaSideKick through plugin manager would violate Apache code license from AntClassLoader file. One needn't to care about their own licenses, but care about third party code licenses is required in any case. Jarek |