Heads up...we're using IRC for real-time collaboration on this and will post updates to the dev
list. IRC is at irc.freenode.net channel #geronimo.
Right now I'm removing ./modules/j2ee-schema/src/resources/* and building to see if these DTDs are
required for building in some odd way. Don't work on these just yet.
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.
