>>>>> Damien Raude-Morvan <draz...@drazzib.com> writes:
Hi,
>> Could you please add a webmvc-struts package (under ASL 2.0
>> license)? I have attached to this email a patch which add the jar
>> in its own package. I'm currently using it without any problem.
> Thanks for your contribution ! I'll merge it to SVN. [And I'll
> check this into my local spring 3.0 work]
Thanks! BTW, when do you plan to upload spring 3.0? Thanks for working
on the package.
>> Also, I'm wondering why webmvc-portlet is not included as well
>> (just curious...). According to debian/README.Debian, it's
>> because it's non-free, but according to the source files,
>> everything is licensed under the ASL 2.0, is there any reason
>> which makes it non-free?
> You're right : Spring webmvc-portlet source code is licenced under
> ASL 2.0 (like all Spring source code).
> There is two issues here :
> - Portlet 2.0 API (javax.portlet.*) is not packaged as a Debian
> package
> - AFAIK, this API is not licenced under a DFSG-free licence :
> * http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr286/index.html
> * it's just "open source" (copy and display right grant) but no
> modification right
> * so we can only provide it under non-free
Oh ok, so maybe it could go to contrib when `javax.portlet*' will be
uploaded to non-free, if it does. But I now understand why it can't be
packaged, thanks for the explanation ;).
Cheers,
Arnaud
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