Hi,

  We have following dependencies , with mentioned licensing

libxml2   - MIT License
zlib      - zlib license

iconv*    - LGPL License

*(Axis2/C doesn't have direct dependency with iconv, only libxml2 has
 dependency with iconv) 

David Illsley provide this link [1] as a reference , which carries
potential solution for our issue. According to this document MIT 
and zlib licenses comes under Category A licenses (Authorized
licenses).

<quote>
Third-party works, in both source and binary form, may be included
within Apache products when made available under the following
licenses: 
</quote>


whereas LGPL comes under Category X licenses (Excluded Licenses), 
<quote>
The following licenses must not apply to any software within an Apache
product, whether in source or binary form. See Options for Prohibited
Works for applicability to system requirements or optional works
distributed elsewhere.
</quote>


My understanding is , we could ship libxml2 and zlib if we want. But
there might not be room for iconv. However we do not have direct
dependency for iconv, we list it because libxml2 have dependency on
it.

Any thoughts on this ?

thanks,
Dinesh

1.http://people.apache.org/~cliffs/3party.html#options-systemrequirements

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