Bug 45755 - fop's configuration file is distributed under Apache License
Summary: fop's configuration file is distributed under Apache License
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Fop - Now in Jira
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: all
Hardware: PC All
: P1 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: fop-dev
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Reported: 2008-09-07 10:32 UTC by Satoru SATOH
Modified: 2012-04-01 07:08 UTC (History)
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Description Satoru SATOH 2008-09-07 10:32:19 UTC
fop's *configuration file* (conf/fop.xconf) is distributed under Apache License, Version 2.0;
there is the apache license clause at the front of that file.

IMHO, It's just a configuration example and not under the influence of the license and it 
might prevent that other software just using fop distributed under other license incompatible 
with apache license, contain that configuration file (itself or modified version) not under 
apache license.

Could you please consider to make the configuration file license free and freely distributable?
Comment 1 Jeremias Maerki 2008-09-15 08:18:51 UTC
Makes sense what you say. I've cross-checked with the ASF's source header policy [1] and I agree that this can be removed. But I don't think anyone would ever have sued you if you removed the license header from this particular file.

License header removed in FOP Trunk: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=695500&view=rev

[1] http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html
Comment 2 Satoru SATOH 2008-12-26 17:20:25 UTC
> But I don't think anyone would ever have sued you if you removed 
> the license header from this particular file.

That's absolutely right. But I just want to make sure that in case.

Anyway, thanks for your quick work!
(and sorry for this quite late reply.)
Comment 3 Glenn Adams 2012-04-01 07:08:00 UTC
batch transition pre-FOP1.0 resolved+fixed bugs to closed+fixed