[Aperture-devel] Aperture Dependency Jar License Questions

[Keith R. B. <kbe...@bb...>]

All -

Aperture may be alpha, but it's already extremely functional.  I'm =20
working on a project that will be incorporating Aperture into its =20
distribution.  We want to make sure we don't get into any licensing =20
problems, so I have some questions:

1) We found that one library, DFKIUtils2.jar, is licensed under GPL.  =20
Is this the only one?  I noticed that DFKI is one of the sponsors of =20
Aperture.  Is it possible they could reconsider their decision to put =20
DFKIUtils2 under the GPL?

2) There were some jar files for which we could not find any license =20
files associated with them:

osgi.core-4.0.jar
org.semweb4j.rdf2go.api_4.4.7.jar
org.semweb4j.rdf2go.impl.base_4.4.6.jar
org.openrdf.rdf2go4.4.1.2682.jar
osgi.core-4.0.jar

Can you say what are their licenses?

3) There are some jar files contain licenses other than the standard =20
ones.  Do any of these licenses limit our ability to freely distribute =20
everything together as does a GPL license?

bcmail-jdk14-132.jar: (Bouncy Castle)
bcprov-jdk14-132.jar: (Bouncy Castle)
demork-2.0.jar: (DFKI)
nrlvalidator.jar P: nrlvalidator-UNKNOWN-VER.jar: (DFKI)
openrdf-sesame-2.0-SNAPSHOT-onejar.jar: (DFKI)
pdfbox-0.7.3.jar: (pdfbox.org)
slf4j-api-1.3.0.jar: (QOS.ch)
slf4j-api-simple-1.3.0.jar: (QOS.ch)
winlaf-0.5.1.jar: (winlaf.dev.java.net)

Thanks for any information you can offer.

Regards,
Keith Bennett

P.S. In case it's helpful, here is what I believe to be a complete =20
list of the jar files and their license types:

jcl104-over-slf4j-1.3.0.jar: ?
org.openrdf.rdf2go-4.4.1.2682.jar: ?
org.semweb4j.rdf2go.api_4.4.7.jar: ?
org.semweb4j.rdf2go.impl.base_4.4.6.jar: ?
osgi.core-4.0.jar: ?
org.apache.commons.codec_1.2.0.jar: Apache
org.apache.commons.httpclient-3.0.0.rc2.jar: Apache
poi-3.0-FINAL.jar: Apache
fontbox-0.1.0-dev.jar: BSD
ical4jcvs20061019.jar: Custom: (Ben Fortuna)
bcmail-jdk14-132.jar: Custom (Bouncy Castle)
bcprov-jdk14-132.jar: Custom (Bouncy Castle)
demork-2.0.jar: Custom (DFKI)
nrlvalidator.jar: Custom (DFKI)
openrdf-sesame-2.0-SNAPSHOT-onejar.jar: Custom (DFKI)
pdfbox-0.7.3.jar: Custom (pdfbox.org)
slf4j-api-1.3.0.jar: Custom (QOS.ch)
slf4j-api-simple-1.3.0.jar: Custom (QOS.ch)
winlaf-0.5.1.jar: Custom (winlaf.dev.java.net)
DFKIUtils2.jar: GPL
htmlparser-1.6.jar: LGPL
metadata-extractor-2.4.0-beta-1.jar: Public Domain
mail-1.4.jar: Sun (Entitlement for Software)
activation-1.0.2-upd2.jar: Sun Binary