Thanks for clarifying it, Kevan ! 2010/1/20 Kevan Miller <[email protected]>
> > On Jan 15, 2010, at 8:51 PM, Ivan wrote: > > 2010/1/16 Jarek Gawor <[email protected]> > >> Hey folks, >> >> I tried building a server with welcome app with Tomcat in trunk and >> ran into a few of problems (at least one of which I thought was >> previously fixed). I'm getting these error when starting a server with >> welcome app: >> > 1) GERONIMO-5033 - there is a number of warning from Tomcat about >> missing xsd/dtd files from servlet spec and possible from jsp spec (or >> missing import somewhere) >> > Yes, I wish to add them in a few days ago, but not sure the license > issue, so ... > > > The Sun schema files (xsd/dtd's) should all be dual-licensed: GPL v2 or > CDDL. > > CDDL is classified by the ASF as an Category B (reciprocal) license -- > http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html#category-b > > In general Category B licensed binaries are OK for an Apache release. > However, category B source code should be avoided -- there are exceptions to > this. And the exceptions apply to this very case... :) > > Small amounts of CDDL "code" that are unlikely to change are ok. Since > these xsd/dtd files encode a standard, they are extremely unlikely to > change. > > In summary, it's ok to place these CDDL licensed xsd/dtd files in our svn. > The LICENSE and NOTICE files need to be updated accordingly. LICENSE will > need a copy of the CDDL license and the NOTICE will need to point to the > CDDL source. I can help with this... > > --kevan > -- Ivan
