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Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:59:15 -0500
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Subject: Re: FreeMarker license
From: Benson Margulies <bimargulies@gmail.com>
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The 4-clause BSD license does not seem to appear on
http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html at all. So I think you need
to go to legal.

I confess that I don't understand the problem with JSP pages in the
first place. All the pieces you need are either Apache or Eclipse in
my experience.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Andy Seaborne <andy@apache.org> wrote:
> Dear Mentors (mainly),
>
> Before going to legal@ or LEGAL-, I'd like to get advice about this licen=
se.
> =C2=A0The objective is to redistribute the binary in the Fuseki server ja=
r.
>
> The server jar is a single jar of all the binaries combined. =C2=A0You ca=
n run
> Fuseki with "java -jar OneJar". =C2=A0So it's unpacking the original bina=
ry and
> repacking in a combined jar.
>
> Question: is it worth even pursuing this route?
>
>
> The license is at:
>
> http://freemarker.sourceforge.net/docs/app_license.html
>
> it is BSD...ish. =C2=A0It has 4 clauses:
>
> 1 - the BSD clause about source code distribution.
>
> 2 - The binary redistribution clause is replaced by one needing either
> acknowledge in end-user documention or acknowledgement "in the software i=
n
> the normal place"
>
> 3 - No endorsement by using the name FreeMarker.
>
> 4 - Name protection clause.
>
> Their copyright date is out of date :-) =C2=A0They released in 2011.
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Andy
>
>
> PS
> Plan B1 is use Velocity but that seems to need an external file and has
> issues with unnecessary dependencies.
>
> Plan B2 is to use StringTemplate which is 3-clause BSD. =C2=A0But it's no=
t quite
> up to date in maven central (4.0.2 vs 4.0.5).
>
> Velocity : I didn't find out how to control velocity without an external
> file like tools.xml; to use velocity-tools I either ended up with a lot o=
f
> extra stuff, or had to tune the maven excludes to avoid pulling in struts
> (this is fixed in Velocity tools 2.1 but it's not out yet and Fuseki need=
s
> non-snapshots to release with). =C2=A0 I may revisit this if I have time.