MIT License vs. using Sources from JDK
ssproessig-thales opened this issue · comments
Hi everybody,
we are trying to use https://github.com/mebjas/html5-qrcode in one of our customers' internal projects. This projects claims to be under Apache 2.0 License and is using zxing-js, which claims MIT License.
But running the sources through a license analysis tool it was found to contain GPL 2 code, which is a clear no-go for us, unfortunately.
Digging deeper one can see that you use JDK classes as e.g. OutputStream and translated them using ./autotransform with regexps to TypeScript.
Have you any reliable clarification that this is a way to integrate GPL 2 code without becoming GPL 2 yourself, going up to mebjas/html5-qrcode and users of this library?
Thank you for any input!
Sören
Related is also how the project has handled the migration from Apache licensed Java code (license still referred in TS code) to the MIT license. See for example https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/9077/relicensing-from-apache-2-0-to-apache-or-mit.
@odahcam, can you help out here?
Trying to give some background here.
The project came up because I was looking for a possibility to scan QR-codes in angular. I then came accross https://github.com/aleris/zxing-typescript which is from my understanding a rule-based transformation of the ZXing Java code to Typescript. Because I couldn't link the sources at the time I copied the sources in my project and made a small Angular component (--> ngx-scanner). Later odahcam came along and started developing. As a refactoring step, ZXing-JS org was created and the code was moved from ngx-scanner to this library project. From the stack-overflow question above I think it was falsely rebranded with MIT license, it should be Apache 2.0 instead. I thereforce changed the license.