hi lance IANAL but i will offer some speculation (in an unofficial capacity). legal matters are difficult and laws vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. it is therefore essential to take proper legal advice from a suitable qualified legal professional.
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 15:58 -0400, Lance Bader wrote: > In xbean.jar, the NOTICE.TXT file contains the following item. > > - W3C XML Schema documents Copyright 2001-2003 (c) World Wide Web > Consortium (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European > Research > Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University) > > but the W3C Software License > (http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 ) > does not appear anywhere in the distribution. > > Is this a simple oversite or is there some undocumented agreement that > makes it unnecessary? IMHO the license requires that the appropriate notice be distributed. (the notice and the license are the same document.) probably appending the notice to the bottom of the apache NOTICE file should be sufficient. the xmlbean pmc probably need to check with the apache legal team about this. > Do I need to include the W3C Software License if I redistribute > xbean.jar? If so, what files should I say it applies to? IMHO no: just the notice (which is the same as the license) as a notice (not a license). the full text in the notice indicates that it is this applies to the w3c schema definition documents found in the jar. i think these are schema/src/XMLSchema.xsd and schema/src/XML.xsd but you'll need to check (hopefully someone who knows more will jump in with more details). since these have some modifications made by the xmlbeans team, i suspect that these derived works are actually licensed from apache under ASL2.0. the notice does need to be appended to the apache NOTICE file, though. but IANAL and these are just unofficial speculations... - robert
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