[Mulgara-dev] Pre-Release Legal Review

[David Wood]

Hi all,

I completed the pre-release legal review this morning.  I updated the  
LEGAL.txt file as follows:

   - Marked with TODO three projects whose source code is not  
available online.
   - Updated 3 URLs.
   - Updated 8 licenses.
   - Updated version numbers for 2 projects.
   - Added Xalan, which must have been lost somehow.

Apache keeps changing their project URLs as the projects progress  
through their system :(  On the good side, several projects with non- 
OSI licenses changed to having OSI-approved licenses.

Source for the following projects is no longer Internet-accessible  
for the versions that we are using.  We will need to either provide  
it ourselves or get the authors to do so:

// TODO: Version no longer available from Apache
     Apache SOAP
     JARs:     apache-soap-2.2.jar
     URL:      http://xml.apache.org/soap/index.html
     LICENSE:  Apache Software License, v2.0
               http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0


// TODO - resolve
     Date Utils
     JARs:     DateUtils1.jar
     URL:      http://www.mousepushers.com/java.html
               (temporarily removed as of this release check - they
               promise to make their Java utils available again soon)
     LICENSE:  BSD Variant
               http://www.mousepushers.com/licence.txt


// TODO: version not available on SF.
     JRDF
     JARs:     jrdf-0.3.4.3.jar
     URL:      http://jrdf.sourceforge.net/
     LICENSE:  Dual license: Apache or GNU LGPL
               LGPL chosen
               http://opensource.org/licenses/lgpl-license.php

I recall that Andrew Newman created the JRDF version just for us, but  
he then nearly immediately created a new version for public release.   
That means that we are using a version without publicly available  
source code.  This is an old problem, but one that I just caught.

This may seem like small potatoes to some of you, but please recall  
that if our source code is not *completely* available, then we are  
not really an Open Source Software project.

Regards,
Dave

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