On Aug 18, 2006, at 8:28 AM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
All,
For those wondering where the Geronimo 1.1.1 release is at here is
a quick summary and battle plan.
John Sisson discovered that we have several DTD and XSDs included
in our build that are copies of Sun's original material. The
copyright in the material seems to indicate that we cannot
redistribute the content. Unfortunately, as Geir has pointed out,
that there is no clear way to interpret the license and we should
manually generate these to stay legal and avoid any appearance of
impropriety.
The documents in question reside in both the distribution of the
source as well as the server itself. It appears that other open
source and commercial vendors do distribute these documents in
their original form but the ASF does not have a clear indication
that we can follow this same practice. You can find the documents
in $G_BUILD_TREE/modules/j2ee-schema/src/* as well as the
distributions in $G_DIST/schema/* directories.
The documents are identified in JIRA http://issues.apache.org/jira/
browse/GERONIMO-2307.
I'd like to ask anyone that has some spare moments to help out with
putting these together. Basically, you need to refer to the
appropriate specification and type in the XML exactly like it is
represented for actual elements and either omit or paraphrase the
information embedded in comments so we do not violate Sun's copyright.
I know this is frustrating but for their own reasons Sun has
imposed this unfriendly copyright and we need to abide by it. We
are protecting The ASF, Geronimo and our users.
If you are working on a document please update the above JIRA to
indicate it is partial so others can see what remains. Please
check the new schemas into their respective replacements. When the
replacements are complete we'll build a new distribution and run it
through a full CTS test to validate our work.
Please also consider working with a partner so you can cross check
each other's work.
Thanks in advance for your patience and help with this important
issue.
Also, if others have input into the process that I have missed
please provide it as well.
Thanks to John and Geir for discovering and mediating on this issue.
I wrote some code that compares xml documents for identical content
that's in several xmlbeans related tests. I'll look into write a
test class that:
1. checks that you are online
2. if so, checks that each of our j2ee 1.4 schemas match the ones
available from the sun web site http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/
j2ee_1_4.xsd (etc)
I'll have to modify the code a bit so it ignores differenences
between documentation.
This won't help for the earlier dtds.
Also, I think we should include in our versions the link to the sun
website on which the fully commented versions are available.
thanks
david jencks
