Possible License Issue With JavaCC

Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldonkin at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat Sep 29 10:51:15 UTC 2007


hi

i've been doing some license audit work for a release of one of the
projects over at Apache. IMHO the JavaCC license is not compatible with
the Debian Social Contract (see
http://www.jroller.com/robertburrelldonkin/entry/javacc_version_4_0_is
for reasoning). i'm going to raise the issue of the JavaCC license with
the legal group at Apache
(http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/) but since
JavaCC is packaged in main by Debian, i thought it worthwhile to
highlight that you may have a possible issue.

(apologies if i've ruffled any feathers with this mail - i don't really
grok the netiquette here at debian)

- robert





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