On Aug 9, 2007, at 6:50 PM, Sam Ruby wrote:

On 8/4/07, David Jencks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I'm a bit confused though about the inclusion of cddl xsds in apache
svn since IIUC you have indicated xsds are definitely "source
code" (I completely agree) and the draft 3rd party licensing page
says cddl source can't be in apache releases.  It doesn't say whether
a few files can be in svn or not AFAICT but that certainly looks like
it would prohibit shipping an asf jar with any cddl xsds in it.

I've updated the draft 3rd party licensing page:

http://people.apache.org/~rubys/3party.html

+1

Thanks for the update, Sam!

IIUC, Geronimo makes two uses of the CDDL-licensed xsd files.

1. The unmodified xsd files are available to the xml parser to avoid downloading the files from the internet during operation.

2. The unmodified xsd files are "compiled" into Java classes which are then compiled into binary form for execution.

The new policy seems to address both cases, assuming that Geronimo chooses to update their copies of the files to the CDDL-licensed versions.

The longer term intent is to revise the document to say something
along the lines of "Category A is always OK",
"Category C is never

You mean Category X I assume...

Craig

P.S. One more note: I've been unable to get a timely response from the Java SE folks regarding licensing of the two remaining dtd files. Hopefully there will be a reply shortly...
  http://java.sun.com/dtd/properties.dtd
  http://java.sun.com/dtd/preferences.dtd

OK", and "Category B is up to the PMC, with the following
guidance...".

- Sam Ruby

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