I wasn't aware that there was any problem with redistributing those
classes.   You're right, we embed those classes from the geronimo spec
jar, so I guess the problem is the same as in geronimo.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 16:50, Rick McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was looking at how the transaction component was building to figure out
> how the javax.transaction classes.  If I understand what the build is doing,
> then it appears that the bundle is getting built by directly embedding the
> javax.transaction and javax.transaction.xa from the jvm used to build the
> bundle.  I'm nervous that this would cause copyright issues since these
> classes are Sun copyrighted IP and I'm not sure that Apache is in the clear
> with redistributing those classes that way.  We've got a similar issue in
> Geronimo right now, and I was trying to figure out how this had been solved
> here when I discovered this.  Am I interpreting what's going on with the
> build correctly?
>
> Rick
>
>
>



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