508 jackson 2.1.x

[zznate]

Updates to support Jackson 2.1.x as outlined in #508

[purplefox]

Is this the ASL version?

I believe Jackson has a weird licensing policy ASL and LGPL.

We wouldn't be able to use the LGPL version in Vert.x

Just want to confirm first that this is the ASL 2.0 version we're using....

[zznate]

I think so, but it's time for the @cowtowncoder bat signal just to be sure.

[Edit] http://wiki.fasterxml.com/JacksonLicensing so I guess you can just say "ASF.v2.0 for Jackson" in a licenses dir and be done with it (i've previously structured stuff similar to https://github.com/apache/cassandra/tree/trunk/lib/licenses in these situations)

[cowtowncoder]

There is just one jar for 2.x, and the human-readable answer is: if you want to use Apache, you will use Apache. You can clarify this externally if you like ("we use Jackson under Apache license" or whatever).
We just allow licensing under more than one license, you get to choose.

Dual-licensing really only affects contributions (i.e. they need to be done to allow licensing under multiple). And well Jackson team that gets to answer questions :).
But should not confuse lives of downstream teams.

We hope to clarify this further in near future (2.2 if possible, 2.3 if it takes longer), so that rule would be "unless otherwise stated, it's Apache all the way".

I hope this helps.

Oh, and obviously all help would be welcome, this is being discussed on Jackson dev list.

[zznate]

Rad! Thanks @cowtowncoder for dropping in to clarify - much appreciated.

[purplefox]

Ok thanks guys

[purplefox]

Great. Will merge this.

Nate - can you sign the SpringSource CLA https://support.springsource.com/spring_committer_signup if you haven't done so already. I know it seems pretty anal for a small contrib like this but we have to be pretty strict as we move to Eclipse.

Thanks!

[zznate]

@purplefox Np. Done w/ conf number 47820130422093329. Thx.