Yeah, I think we need some discussion here and maybe bring this up in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Many of the xsds/dtds we use for Geronimo specs seem to have the Sun copyright in them, and/or are used verbatim from Sun with all comments, etc. In fact in the JIRA issue, GERONIMO-1686, Jacek pointed out that the web-app_2_3.dtd that Bill Dudney was submitting as a patch contained the Sun copyright. Further examination shows that this DTD is already in our repos, with ful Sun copyright and all, that comes with the geronimo-j2ee-schema module. In fact, further search yielded the following with Sun's copyright attached: Geronimo --------- web-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd (3 matches) web-app_2_4.xsd (3 matches) jsp_2_0.xsd (3 matches) j2ee_web_services_client_1_1.xsd (3 matches) j2ee_web_services_1_1.xsd (3 matches) j2ee_jaxrpc_mapping_1_1.xsd (3 matches) j2ee_1_4.xsd (3 matches) ejb-jar_2_1.xsd (3 matches) connector_1_5.xsd (3 matches) application-client_1_4.xsd (3 matches) application_1_4.xsd (3 matches) Geronimo Specs -------------- jsp_2_0.xsd web-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd j2ee_1_4.xsd j2ee_web_services_1_1.xsd j2ee_web_services_client_1_1.xsd web-app_2_3.dtd web-app_2_4.xsd web-jsptaglibrary_1_2.dtd web-jsptaglibrary_2_0.xsd What is Apache's stance on this and what are the legalities regarding the use of the copyright in the XSDs and DTDs? Jeff Jacek Laskowski wrote: > Hi, > > It struck me while I was about to commit Bill's patch > (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-1686). Some files in it > (and in j2ee-schema module, actually), contain > > Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc., 901 San Antonio > Road, Palo Alto, California 94303, U.S.A. All rights > reserved. > > What are the rules to store such files in our repo? Since they're in > our repo, they're ours and I was changing the header of the files in > Bill's patch to reference the ASL 2.0 license, but am not sure if I'm > allowed to. If I'm not, they should not be in our repo, either. > > Is there a mistake in my reasoning? ;) Desparately looking for a guidance... > > Jacek > > -- > Jacek Laskowski > http://www.laskowski.org.pl
