[jdom-interest] CVS and JDOM license

[Malachi de AElfweald]

Actually, that is not quite accurate.
3rd party jars are supposed to be supplied in the "extension",
which is signed by the 3rd party. We are using these now in apps
we are currently distributing.

Malachi

On Sun, 02 Mar 2003 13:00:02 -0700, Alex Rosen <arosen at novell.com> wrote:

> 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
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>>> http://www.multitask.com.au
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