At 09:28 6/12/00 -0800, James Duncan Davidson wrote:
>On 12/6/00 2:14 AM, "Peter Donald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> At 09:58 6/12/00 -0000, you wrote:
>>> public class Bootstrap {
>>>
>>> private static String base = "../";
>>> + private static String crimsonSources = "../../../xml-crimson/src";
>> // relative to base
>>
>> This makes it near impossible for a lot of people to build it with this
>> tool.
>
>Why? If you are checking out jakarta-ant, it's just another word on the
>checkout command to checkout crimson.jar.
Well not about that but more due to legal thing. I would never touch
something that has Suns license attached. I thought Apache had a clean tree
policy - ie only Apache copyright source is allowed to exist in CVS.
However Crimson has Sun copyright stuff in the tree - this seems silly -
especially as xml-xerces has similar source (the jaxp parser package) that
could be easily adpated to jaxp1.1 and we could do away with unclean tree
and that silly license.
I guess it is a little anal but I have seen the results of discarding
legality (thou I live in a particularly restrictive country so YMMV).
Cheers,
Pete
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