No feedback here, either. I guess I can also assume lazy consensus, so I'm going to implement this plan together with the Batik people as soon as the SVN migration is through.
On 26.06.2005 13:45:47 Jeremias Maerki wrote: > As requested by Shane, here's my proposed plan to move the following > W3C-licensed source packages from Batik to XML Commons External: > > org.w3c.css.sac: The Simple API for CSS, http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/SAC/ > org.w3c.dom.smil: SMIL Bindings, > http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/java/classes/org/w3c/dom/smil/#dirlist > org.w3c.dom.svg: SVG Bindings, http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/java.html > > These three packages are currently found here: > - > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xmlgraphics/batik/trunk/sources/org/w3c/css/sac/ > - > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xmlgraphics/batik/trunk/sources/org/w3c/dom/smil/ > - > http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xmlgraphics/batik/trunk/sources/org/w3c/dom/svg/ > > The current XML Commons External can be found here: > [1] http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/xml-commons/java/external/src/ > > 1. Placement of the sources: > > I propose to simply put these source with their existing package > structure under [1] like the existing Java Bindings: > > This will help make sure that the interoperability among the different > W3C-licensed packages will be maintained. > > 2. Build process: > > The build will be extended to create a separate JAR (xml-apis-ext.jar) > containing the three new packages above. The contents of the original > xml-apis.jar will not be changed, i.e. the three new packages will not > land in xml-apis.jar. > > 3. Documentation: > > The documentation will be updated to show the additional packages. > Additional license files will be created for each package, following the > example of the existing packages like the W3C DOM Java Bindings. > > Although the W3C does not specify the license of their Java Bindings > properly everywhere I believe that all three new packages are licensed > under the W3C license, because those packages that don't have an > explicit license file are mentioned under [2]. > > [2] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/ipr-notice-20021231 > > README.dom.txt will be changed in the following way: > - It is updated to contain links to all (!) included W3C Java Bindings. > - It is updated to explain that xml-apis.jar contains the DOM Level 3 > Java Bindings which are also included in JAXP 1.3 (and J2SE 5.0). > - An explanation will be added how the individual packages are divided > into xml-apis.jar and xml-apis-ext.jar. > > A HISTORY file will be created (or updated) to document the changes made > by implementing this plan. > > 3. Timing: > > If the SVN migration of XML Commons can happen within reasonable time > (until the ApacheCon EU Hackathon) I'd like to wait with implementing > this plan until the SVN migration is complete so we have the full > history of the move in Subversion. > > ----- > > References: > > Links to all W3C DOM Java Bindings: http://www.w3.org/DOM/DOMTR > > List of DOM Java Bindings in JAXP 1.3: > org.w3.dom > org.w3.dom.bootstrap > org.w3.dom.events > org.w3.dom.ls > > ----- > > WDYT? > > Jeremias Maerki Jeremias Maerki
