Hi Gary, On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 7:49 PM Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote:
> The first item to check is we can legally re-license the files to the > Apache license. I randomly looked at one file and it starts with "Copyright > (c) 2008 Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail and others." > followed by the Eclipse license. > I think that's a sensible thought, and we should ensure that, re-licensing of all files of the Eclipse XPath 2.0 processor ( https://git.eclipse.org/c/sourceediting/webtools.sourceediting.xpath.git/, branch R3_2_maintenance) to the Apache license is done before at Apache Xalan we import and reuse the code of this XPath 2.0 processor. I'm suggesting to use branch R3_2_maintenance, because that's the branch where I had contributed most to this XPath 2.0 processor (and where, morally I can claim some ownership and transfer that to Apache license). >From my point of view, we can treat all files available for the Eclipse XPath 2.0 processor (at the URL and branch mentioned above), to be possessing (only) the Eclipse license. Since because, Eclipse foundation has earlier successfully inherited to its license the mentioned XPath 2.0 processor. I believe that, we should only try to achieve re-licensing the mentioned XPath 2.0 processor code to the Apache license. I think that, we the whole Xalan team, would be happy if someone (probably you) from Xalan team can help achieve this software license transition. > The next tricky part is which branch to pick as the target, I would assume > it to be what we released 2.7.2 from. > We shall follow your advise about this point as well. > Perhaps a good exercise would be to release 2.7.3 first. There are some > pending tickets w patches IIRC. > I can't see anything significant happening these days at Xalan on this front. Please advise Xalan team about this and drive this activity. Hoping that, you would work (or advise others at Xalan team as appropriate) towards achieving Apache license of the Eclipse XPath 2.0 codebase (at the above mentioned URL and branch), and keep us updated. -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
