305070 - relnotes.htm contains text about a required proprietary license

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Directory :: LDAP Java SDK, defect)

Description

[jsmeix]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414

I am talking about relnotes.htm in this source archive
http://www.mozilla.org/directory/ldapsdk_java_20020819.tar.gz

mozilla/directory/java-sdk/relnotes.htm reads:  
"Redistribution separate from Netscape Directory SDK for Java
 or direct use of OROMatcher interfaces
 requires a license from ORO Java Software."

As far as I found out this seems to be a leftover from
the original software and has become irrelevant in fact.
Therefore I think it should be o.k. if this leftover
is simply removed.

Reasoning:

Regarding the part
"direct use of OROMatcher interfaces requires a license from ORO":
On www.savarese.org there is
----------------------------------------------------------------------
OROMatcher and the rest.
In June, 2000, OROMatcher 2.0, PerlTools 2.0, and the rest of the
ORO text processing software (AwkTools and TextTools) were donated
to the Apache Jakarta Project, which took over custodianship of the
software, housing CVS repository, mailing lists, and release archives.
The software is now Jakarta ORO and is licensed under the Apache
License, which is a BSD-style license that allows projects such
as Jython to continue to use the software without special licensing. 
----------------------------------------------------------------------

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Read the installed relnotes.htm file.
Actual Results:  
I got the feeling that I have proprietary software installed
for which I don't have a license.

Expected Results:  
Be clear about the license under which it is in fact.

Comment 1

[Mark Smith [:mcs]]

I checked the current relnotes.htm file in CVS and this note is still present. 
I do not know the history on this, but it does sound like it can be removed.  I
added E-Y to the bug CC in case they know more about this than I do.

Comment 2

[Erhyuan Tsai]

I don't know the history neither, thing happened before I got involved.
However, I think it is ok to remove according to the statements on www.savarese.org.

Comment 3

[Brandon Keepers]

Attachment: Patch to replace OROMatcher imports with Jakarta ORO

I've attached a patch to remove the OROMatcher requirement and replace it with
Jakarta ORO (http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/).  This is simply a change in the
import statments.  The patch assumes that the new oro jar is placed in
ldapfilter/lib/jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar.  I also updated the readme, build.xml,
build.properties, and ldap.mk.

Comment 4

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Not activity for at least 6 years, closing.