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License Administration

The use and consequences of the licenses in the project

This project is developed under the ASLv2 and GPLv3 licenses. As the
GPLv3 the GPLv3 is a strong copyleft license, some care has to be taken when
linking when linking between the different components of this project.

In general, software libraries developed under ASLv2 can be used by
GPLv3 by GPLv3 licensed applications while both retain their license terms (see
the see the Apache text on GPL compatibility). However, the other way around, the GPLv3
license GPLv3 license will invoke the clauses set forth in
in section 10 of its license text:

"10. Automatic Licensing of Downstream Recipients.

Each time you convey a covered work, the recipient automatically
receives a license from the original licensors, to run, modify and propagate
that propagate that work, subject to this License. You are not responsible for
enforcing for enforcing compliance by third parties with this License."

Specifically, when using any of the miniprojects that are licensed under
the under the GPLv3, potential clients of these applications or libraries should
take should take special care to observe its license.

Also, the individual miniprojects are responsible for providing a list
of list of the licenses used by their respective components. This list should
reside should reside in a file named `README` located at the root of the project,
alongside  alongside its `pom.xml` file.

Tools

Phil Hagelberg (Technomancy) has created a little script that hooks up
with up with the `pom.xml` of a project and lists the license of each of its
dependenciesits dependencies, as far as they can be found (i.e. they reside in one of
`LICENSE`of `LICENSE`, `LICENSE.txt`, `META-INF/LICENSE`, `META-INF/LICENSE.txt` or `license/LICENSE`).

The script is written in clojure, a JVM
languageJVM language. Get it here.