Hi folks. I have many packages that indirectly depend on these products (and indeed other sun products), but from reading the Sun license, I cannot package these products as currently licensed from Sun. For instance, the javamail license says: "... Sun grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to reproduce and distribute the Software in binary code form only, provided that you (i) distribute the Softwarre complete and unmodified and only bundled as part of your Programs, - I think we pass this one, except that we change the paths where the packages are installed. (ii) do not distribute additional software intended to replace any component(s) of the Software, - thus, we cannot redistribute competing projects, which is unacceptable. (iii) do not remove or alter any proprietary legends or notices contained in the Software, - fair enough (iv) only distribute the Software subject to a license agreement that protects Sun's interests consistent with the terms contained in this Agreement, and - possibly. we redistribute it under the same license, however we don't have one governing license for the entire Gentoo project that protects Sun. (v) agree to defend and indemnify Sun and its licensors from and against any damages, costs, liabilities, settlement amounts and/or expenses (including attorneys' fees) incurred in connection with any claim, lawsuit or action by any third party that arises or results from the use or distribution of any and all Programs and/or Software. - nope. we don't have a cent in our warchest, much less one to use to protect Sun. Thus, as I see it (IANAL, TINSTAAFL, TTFN, etc) we (the Gentoo project, but I suspect this will hold for at least Debian as well) are not able to redistribute these products as currently licensed. Does anbody know of suitable replacements? So far, I have found: ) GNU javamail - replaces Sun javamail ) GNU JAF - replaces SUN JAF (both are part of GNU classpathx) ) JWSDP consists of # JavaServer Faces (JSF) # XML and Web Services Security # Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB) # Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) -> GNU JAXP # Java API for XML Registries (JAXR) # Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC) # SOAP with Attachements API for Java (SAAJ) # JavaServer Pages Standard Tag Library (JSTL) # Java WSDP Registry Server # WS-I Supply Chain Management Sample Application Here I really have no clue apart from GNU JAXP. Any suggestions? Kind regards, Karl T
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