The current Axis2 implementation seems to be depend on STAX style of processing XML streams. The current package, axis2-0.92-bin, even embeds the BEAs JSR-173 implementation of the STAX interface definition JSR-173.
However, the BEA Binary License of STAX seems to retain the copyright of the implementation code and denies copying the software forward to anyone. Is this correct assumption? Anyway the BEA grants licence to review develop and use the implementation source code on a technilogical test implementation, provided some required notices are met, which are not (by the way) in the axis2-0.92-bin -package. Remarkable about the BEA Licensing is that the STAX implementation package by BEA has 4 different licence agreements and none seem to be Apache2 nor LGPL nor any equivalent. At least to me, this is all quite confusing. So am I correct in deducing that the STAX and thus AXIOM is not distributable by Apache2 license when it contains STAX implementation by BEA??? So, any value adding implementation using the AXIOM with the BEA Binary STAX implementation within, may NOT be licensed to clients? Thanks Jukka Keto -- jk - www.solenovo.fi
