dom4j appears to be in violation of the GNUJAXP License unless it has
special permission from the FSF. Does it?
Specifically the latest release of dom4j (and probably earlier releases)
has taken the code from GNU JAXP, *modified it*, and incorporated it
into its code base which is published under a BSD license. They are not
merely linking to the GPL code as permitted by the GPL with library
exception.
The modifications are probably not major. The only one I know of is
changing the package name to org.dom4j.aelfred and org.dom4j.aelfred2
instead of gnu.jaxp.aelfred/gnu.jaxp.aelfred2 though there may be
others. I suspect the problem might be able to be cured by linking to
the unmodified gnujaxp.jar instead of incorporating the Gnu code
directly in the dom4j code base.
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