[jdom-interest] CVS and JDOM license

[Alex Rosen]

The JNLP spec says that all the JARs in your JNLP app must be signed by
the same person. They think this makes things less confusing for the
user - they don't have to trust 10 different people, just the author of
the entire package, who promises that the application as a whole is
safe. Whether or not this is a good idea, it means that signing JDOM
won't help JNLP at all.

Alex

>>> Malachi de AElfweald <malachi at tremerechantry.com> 3/2/2003 11:24:09
AM >>>
In the license:
	In addition, we request (but do not require) that you include in
the 	 
end-user documentation provided with the redistribution and/or in the 	

software itself an acknowledgement equivalent to the following:
	     "This product includes software developed by the
	      JDOM Project (http://www.jdom.org/)."
	 Alternatively, the acknowledgment may be graphical using the
logos 	 
available at http://www.jdom.org/images/logos.

So, I have a recommendation.... We should distribute JDOM with an 
"extension" JNLP
file that specifies logo, url, etc....  we would also need to sign the

jar... then,
when someone wants to distribute JDOM in a JNLP location, it would
display 
the logo,
link to homepage etc.

Without this change, every person who distributes it with a JNLP 
application has to
sign the jar itself -- ie: I have to sign saying that JDOM is signed by

"Malachi".

Malachi

On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 09:23:23 -0600, Bradley S. Huffman 
<hip at a.cs.okstate.edu> wrote:

> You can check it out from the cvs server, after anonymous login, the

> location is
>
> cvs -d :pserver:anonymous at cvs.jdom.org:/home/cvspublic co 
> jdom/LICENSE.txt.
>
> Brad
>
>
> dion at multitask.com.au writes:
>
>> I'm trying to find JDOM's license (for binary redistribution on 
>> http://www.ibiblio.org/maven/ ), and it used to be at:
>>
>> http://cvs.jdom.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/jdom/LICENSE.txt 
>>
>> If someone can point me at a URL for the current JDOM code, I'd be
very 
>> happy.
>> --
>> dIon Gillard, Multitask Consulting
>> Blog:      http://www.freeroller.net/page/dion/Weblog 
>> Work:      http://www.multitask.com.au 
>>
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