Hi Benoit, Hi Christian, > It’s difficult to find references to > previous versions, I luckily found another reference. According to Brad McEvoy, original author of Milton, at least 1.8.1 is licensed under an apache license: > http://milton-users.96038.n3.nabble.com/milton2-is-now-available-and-a-change-of-license-td4024910.html
> Milton 1.8.1 is still available under the apache license and it will > receive limited backports for a while, and I'll continue to accept > patches for the forseeable future. >> Note that the current milton library v2 is released under Apache license. Is >> there any intention to upgrade to milton v2 (is it even possible)? The recent 2.x versions are dual-licensed, either Affero GPL version 3 or you may purchase a license and use it commercially. A vanilla RestXQ/Webdav implementation would indeed be nice… :-) Best from Konstanz Michael > Am 18.01.2018 um 19:24 schrieb Christian Grün <christian.gr...@gmail.com>: > > Hi Benoit, > >> I just realised that the basex-api Maven artifact depends on milton-api 1.8, >> which is released under GPLv3 (this is declared in its parent pom). That >> means that basex-api, and any software that is distributed with it, must be >> released under GPLv3 as well... Are BaseX developers aware of that? > > That’s interesting to hear, I didn’t know that. I am wondering if the > license was changed in between. It’s difficult to find references to > previous versions, but the license information in milton 1.8.1.3 that > I discovered in eXist seems to point to the Apache license [1]. Do you > know more about that? > >> Note that the current milton library v2 is released under Apache license. Is >> there any intention to upgrade to milton v2 (is it even possible)? > > It’s probably quite some effort to get this done (at least without > financial support from commercial sponsors). Apart from that, BaseX > WebDAV has some custom extensions for locking resources [2], which > would possibly need to be reimplemented. > > Yet another approach: As WebDAV is XML-based, we believe it would even > be possible to write an implementation completely in XQuery, based on > RESTXQ. Maybe someone out there would be interested in tackling this? > ;) > > Cheers, > Christian > > [1] > https://github.com/eXist-db/mvn-repo/blob/master/org/exist-db/thirdparty/com/ettrema/milton/1.8.1.3/milton-1.8.1.3.pom > [2] http://docs.basex.org/wiki/Webdav#Locking
