[jdom-interest] License File

William Krick wkrick at eio-online.com
Mon Jul 28 10:34:56 PDT 2003


If I distribute the jdom.jar as-is (unmodified) with my application, is it
sufficient for me to include the jdom README.txt renamed to "jdom.license"
in the directory with the jar file?  Or do I need to do something else as
well?




> -----Original Message-----
> From: jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org
> [mailto:jdom-interest-admin at jdom.org]On Behalf Of Jason Hunter
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:58 PM
> To: John Jefferson
> Cc: jdom
> Subject: Re: [jdom-interest] License File
>
>
> That's what we do with other people's JARs, as you see in lib.
>
> -jh-
>
> John Jefferson wrote:
>
> > Hi Jason,
> >
> > Fair enough, in the case where I am distributing your
> > binary unmodified I should then extract the license
> > file from that binary and put it in the same directory
> > as the binary?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > JJ
> >
> > --- Jason Hunter <jhunter at servlets.com> wrote:
> >
> >>I don't see that as sufficient.  A JAR is not
> >>generally expanded in its
> >>normal use, thus the file remains hidden when it
> >>should be quite obvious.
> >>
> >>-jh-
> >>
> >>John Jefferson wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>Hi Jason
> >>>
> >>>If I am distributing the source compiled into a
> >>
> >>jar,
> >>
> >>>is it enough to just put the license file inside
> >>
> >>the
> >>
> >>>jar as well?
> >>>
> >>>JJ
> >>>
> >>>--- Jason Hunter <jhunter at servlets.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Well we don't ship a version without the build.xml
> >>>>file.  We could put
> >>>>build.xml in the JAR but that just doesn't seem
> >>
> >>very
> >>
> >>>>elegant.  Besides
> >>>>you shouldn't distribute just the JAR since you
> >>
> >>need
> >>
> >>>>to copy over at
> >>>>least the license.  :-)
> >>>>
> >>>>-jh-
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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