Re: How to package Nuxeo DM, a Java EE application, in Debian

[Stefane Fermigier <sf@nuxeo.com>]

On Feb 9, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Vincent Fourmond wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org> wrote:
>> Am 09.02.2011 15:24, schrieb Vincent Fourmond:
>>>   The FTPmaster will *never* accept sourceless JARs.
>> 
>> we don't accept them into Debian's main component. However they are
>> acceptable for the non-free component as long as it is allowed to
>> redistribute them in binary form.
> 
>  Which excludes all GPLed/LGPLed software.
> 
>  If all the binary-only JARs in Nuxeo are licensed under a BSD-like
> license, then it may be suitable for non-free.
> 
>  If not, you're back to the original problem. This is a *legal* problem.

This is a problem we take seriously, indeed.

There are at least 137 LGPL jars that are needed to build Nuxeo, namely the Hibernate and JBoss jars and a few others.

For instance, I see you are packaging hibernate 3.5.4.Final-5 but we're using hibernate 3.2.0.ga and 3.2.6.ga,  hibernate-core, 3.3.2.GA, hibernate-annotations 3.1.0.GA, hibernate-entitymanager 3.4.0.GA, etc.

So it seems you are using a version significantly higher than ours.

Regarding JBoss, you seem to be aligned with JBoss AS 4.2.3, when we, OTOH, have switched 6 months ago to JBoss 5.

In both cases, there is a misalignment problem for which solutions need to be devised, tested, and it will certainly take more time to do so, at which time we will probably have moved forward with a new version of Nuxeo with its new set of dependencies...

  S.

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