Hibernate Annotations is distributed with the jar "ejb3-persistence.jar" in its lib folder.

What is the license for this jar? Where does it come from?

What exactly gives me any right to distribute the ejb3-persistence.jar in my software?

I have searched high and low and cannot find the origin of the ejb3-persistence.jar software, nor under what terms I may redistribute it, if at all.

NOTE: it is NOT sufficient to say "oh, I got it as part of hibernate annotations".

Within the jar itself is a complex license that seems to PREVENT me from distributing it.

Did a Hibernate Annotations developer just grab this from somewhere and throw it into the project?


I have googled and researched other projects extensively. Other projects point to Hibernate Annotations as the source of this. Yet it bears the restrictive SUN license within it. I've searched Sun. I can't even find this jar for download anywhere, except:

http://www.java2s.com/Code/Jar/jboss-5. ... ncejar.htm

That download has a readme which suggests it might be 'lgpl' without specifying a version. But I suspect that license applies to whatever includes the jar.


Any ideas?

I would hate to not be able to use Hibernate Annotations in my project.

Thanks.

I also have a similar problem. Is there any solution?

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Nearly 2 years and nobody can answer this licensing issue?

It's more critical today since Oracle swallowed up Sun.