How to apply the Forms Runtime BSD license

[Daniel Tripp-3]

Hello all.  I want to redistribute formsrt.jar with a project I'm working
on and, though I see that it is released under the BSD license, I'm
unclear on some of the license requirements.  Specifically, can anyone
tell me:

a) What values should I use for the <YEAR>, <OWNER>, and <ORGANIZATION>
mentioned in http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php?

b) Do I need to reproduce the license notices for any of the following?

i) JGoodies FormLayout (mentioned in
abeilleforms/documentation/license.html of formsdesigner2_0.zip)

ii) Batik SVG Toolkit (abeilleforms/documentation/license.html)

iii) Alloy Look and Feel from INCORS GmbH
(abeilleforms/documentation/usage/license.html)

c) What does the "Single Developer License for Abeille" mentioned in
abeilleforms/documentation/usage/license.html apply to, exactly? Hopefully
not the runtime, right?

Thank you.


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[Todd Viegut]

Hi Daniel,

Todd here.  I'm the project lead on Abeille.  First off...glad to see you're using the forms designer.

The intent of the BSD license is to let you use and redistribute the Abeille runtime as you have need.  It is highly unrestrictive and thus why the runtime is NOT LGPL.

Wikipedia best describes it as such:

"The BSD License allows proprietary commercial use, and for the software released
under the license to be incorporated into proprietary commercial products. Works
based on the material may even be released under a proprietary license (but still
must maintain the license requirements). Some notable examples of this are the use
of BSD networking code in Microsoft products, and the use of numerous FreeBSD
components in Mac OS X.  It is possible for something to be distributed with the BSD
License and some other license to apply as well. This was in fact the case with very
early versions of BSD itself, which included proprietary material from AT&T."

To make your life a bit easier for you...  Here is the official text for the BSD license:

Copyright (c) 2004-2008 JETA Software, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

o Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,

this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

o Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,

this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation

and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

o Neither the name of JETA Software, Inc. nor the names of

its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived

from this software without specific prior written permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"

AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,

THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR

PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER OR

CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,

EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,

PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS;

OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY,

WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE

OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE,

EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

JGoodies forms is BSD as well:

https://forms.dev.java.net/faq.html#commercial_use


Batik:

It is an Apache license...so you'll want to have a copy of that as well.


Any questions...definitly email back.  Hope this helps and thanks for using Abeille!


Kind Regards,

~Todd





-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Tripp <abczyx2@...>
To: users@...
Sent: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 12:23 pm
Subject: How to apply the Forms Runtime BSD license

Hello all. I want to redistribute formsrt.jar with a project I'm working on and, though I see that it is released under the BSD license, I'm unclear on some of the license requirements. Specifically, can anyone tell me: 
 
a) What values should I use for the <YEAR>, <OWNER>, and <ORGANIZATION> mentioned in http://www.opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php? 
 
b) Do I need to reproduce the license notices for any of the following? 
 
i) JGoodies FormLayout (mentioned in abeilleforms/documentation/license.html of formsdesigner2_0.zip) 
 
ii) Batik SVG Toolkit (abeilleforms/documentation/license.html) 
 
iii) Alloy Look and Feel from INCORS GmbH (abeilleforms/documentation/usage/license.html) 
 
c) What does the "Single Developer License for Abeille" mentioned in abeilleforms/documentation/usage/license.html apply to, exactly? Hopefully not the runtime, right? 
 
Thank you. 
 
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