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[dsdp-tm-dev] Jakarta-commons is approved!
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Hi Folks,
good news from legal... Jakarta-Commons is approved!!
I'll go and work on it at the earliest possible time.
Cheers
Martin
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Betreff: RE: Eclipse.org Contribution Questionnaire - DSDP-TM-Jakarta
Commons Net 1.4.1 & Jakarta ORO Library 2.0.8
Datum: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 17:11:45 -0400
Von: Janet Campbell <janet.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Firma: Eclipse Foundation, Inc.
An: <martin.oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: 'Sharon Corbett' <sharon.corbett@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Martin,
Your contribution is approved.
Thanks,
Janet
Janet Campbell
Legal Counsel & Manager, Intellectual Property
Eclipse Foundation Inc.
Phone: (613) 224-9461, x.229 (GMT -5)
Fax: (613) 224-5172
Email: janet.campbell@xxxxxxxxxxx
Alternate email: janet@xxxxxxxxxxx
www.eclipse.org
-----Original Message-----
From: emo-records@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:emo-records@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, May 12, 2006 11:08 AM
To: license@xxxxxxxxxxx; martin.oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Eclipse.org Contribution Questionnaire
Submitter:
Name: Martin Oberhuber
Organisation: Wind River
Address: Jakob-Haringer-Str. 8, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Phone: +43(662)457915 85
E-mail: martin.oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Committer
Name: same
Organisation:
Address:
Phone:
E-mail:
PMC
PMC Name: Martin Oberhuber
PMC Phone: +43(662)457915 85
PMC E-mail: martin.oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Contribution
Project: DSDP
Subproject: Target Management
Component: TM Core
Name: Jakarta Commons Net (org.apache.commons.net)
Version: 1.4.1
Size: 40
Description: We would like to ship the Jakarta Commons Net library with our
Eclipse Project deliverables. This includes a reliable proven implementation
of the Telnet, FTP and rlogin/rexec protocols (among others). We need this
for the TM / RSE release to provide well-usable exemplary protocol
implementations and tools.
The Commons Net library requires the Jakarta ORO library. We intend to
package each of these libraries into an Eclipse plugin just like the
org.apache.ant plugin is doing it for the Platform. Thus no lines of code
would be contributed from us, it would simply be a matter of repackaging
(approx. 20 lines of code for the Manifest.mf file in each of the two
plugins, thus 40 lines of code).
As a positive side effect, having the Commons Net plugin in the Eclpse
classpath, Eclipse/Ant optional tasks for 'rcp', 'telnet', 'ftp' will work
directly out of the box. Which will make the PDE build more versatile.
Jython, by the way, also uses ORO.
Pre-existing Packages: yes
Support Info: Jakarta Commons Net can be downloaded from
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_commons-net.cgi
and contains 16829 lines Java code (library, examples and tests; 10893 lines
for the library only).
Jakarta ORO can be downloaded from
http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_oro.cgi
and contains 6847 lines of Java code (library, examples and tools; 5712
lines for the library only).
Both are licensed under the Apache License v2.0, 2004 (which is literally
the same license already accepted at Eclipse.org for the ANT plugin).
The web page on Commons Net says: 'Jakarta Commons Net started as a
commercial Java library called NetComponents, originally developed by ORO,
Inc. in the early days of Java. After its 1.3.8 release in 1998, the source
code was donated to the Apache Software Foundation and made available under
the Apache License. Since then, many programmers have contributed to the
continued development of Jakarta Commons Net.'
Contributor
Name: Martin Oberhuber
Organization: Wind River
Phone: +43(662)457915 85
E-Mail: martin.oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Contribution Percentage: 100
Other Contributors:
Cryptography:
Algorithm:
Pre-existing Packages
Package: Jakarta Commons Net v1.4.1
Version: 1.4.1
Source: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_commons-net.cgi
Contribution Percentage: 71
License: The Apache Software License, Version 2.0, January 2004
License Type: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/license.html
Other authors: Contains good reference implementations for Internet
protocols like Telnet, FTP, Rlogin/RExec.
A list of authors (including E-Mail addresses) is found in the source
archive, file project.xml.
The web page on Commons Net says: 'Jakarta Commons Net started as a
commercial Java library called NetComponents, originally developed by ORO,
Inc. in the early days of Java. After its 1.3.8 release in 1998, the source
code was donated to the Apache Software Foundation and made available under
the Apache License. Since then, many programmers have contributed to the
continued development of Jakarta Commons Net.'
Since everything is distributed under the Apache license, I assume we can
accept it at eclipse.org. The content is networking protocols according to
well known Internet RFCs ('state of the art'), so it is unlikely that any
patents are infringed. The list of Authors is known, and it doesnt appear
that they used any 3rd party material when developing the content.
Committer Name: Martin Oberhuber
Committer Email: martin.oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Pre-existing Packages
Package: Jakarta ORO v2.0.8
Version: 2.0.8
Source: http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_oro.cgi
Contribution Percentage: 29
License: The Apache Software License, Version 1.1
License Type:
http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta/oro/tags/oro-2.0.8/LICENSE?view=ma
rkup
Other authors: Contains text matchers for Perl regular expressions, awk and
others. Is a toolkit used by lots of other projects, including Jython and
Jakarta Commons Net.
According to the website, the license is ASL 2.0,
(as linked above), but according to the sources package (file LICENSE, and
in the source files), it is The Apache Software License, Version 1.1. If
this is a problem, we might get them to release a version under ASL 2.0 --
the HEAD trunk in their repository is already converted to ASL 2.0 but it
has not been released yet.
A list of authors (including E-Mail addresses) is found in the source
archive, file CONTRIBUTORS.
From the README:
ORO, Inc. was a Java tools company that started in 1997 and stopped doing
business a year and a half later when the tools market didn't pan out as
well as anticipated. Other tools companies disappeared at about the same
time included, including JScape. So it goes.
ORO produced several Java class libraries that became very popular among
Java developers and were licensed by companies such as IBM, Compaq, AOL,
Netscape, and you get the picture. Daniel Savarese, one of ORO's founders,
continued maintaining these libraries after ORO dissolved but did not have
time to provide adequate support and feature improvements for developers.
Because of licensing
restrictions with other companies, the source code could not be immediately
released as an open source project. That is, until now (June 2000).
Jakarta-ORO combines all of the former ORO text processing libraries into
one package under the Apache Software License. The software was donated to
the Apache Software Foundation because of the great strides they have made
for server-side Java. The largest group of developers
using the ORO text processing libraries are servlet developers, so it seemed
like a perfect fit.
Since everything is distributed under the Apache license, I assume we can
accept it at eclipse.org. The list of Authors is known, and it doesnt appear
that they used any 3rd party material when developing the content.
Committer Name: Martin Oberhuber
Committer Email: martin.oberhuber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
