On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 12:24 +0300, Panu Hällfors wrote: > Good morning! > > I'm returning to the jsr173_api.jar licensing issue > I noted about some time ago. > > We've found out that the jsr173_api.jar bundled with XMLBeans > is most likely ripped off from Bea's reference implementation > available at http://ftpna2.bea.com/pub/downloads/jsr173.jar. > However, Bea's distribution doesn't explicitely define > _any license at all_ for the api jar (which, at least here in > Finland, means that legally you have no right of any kind to > use it!). > > Thus, we're using Sun's implementation of JSR-173 from their > Web services developer pack. > (http://java.sun.com/webservices/downloads/webservicespack.html) > > Sun's implementation has proper license documentation which > allows you to use and redistribute jsr173_api.jar. In addition, > it seems to work with XMLBeans out of the box (at least at runtime, > didn't check code generation yet). > > > I'd recommend XMLBeans authors to switch over to Sun's > implementation in the official XMLBeans distribution, too. > > The seemingly minor license problem might not be a problem > for you as individual developers, but it may prevent other > parties from using XMLBeans. Companies just cannot take such > immaterial property right risks.
hi panu the apache software foundation takes copyright issues very seriously. FYI xml-beans was donated to the ASF by BEA so the jar in question may well be covered by agreements already in place. (though it probably needs to be labelled better.) alternatively, there may have been some kind of administrative mix-up. i'll make some enquiries... - robert
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