Elliotte Harold wrote:
dom4j appears to be in violation of the GNUJAXP License unless it has
special permission from the FSF. Does it?
I'm not aware of any such permission.
Specifically the latest release of dom4j (and probably earlier
releases) has taken the code from GNU JAXP, *modified it*, and
incorporated it into its code base which is published under a BSD
license. They are not merely linking to the GPL code as permitted by
the GPL with library exception.
The modifications are probably not major. The only one I know of is
changing the package name to org.dom4j.aelfred and org.dom4j.aelfred2
instead of gnu.jaxp.aelfred/gnu.jaxp.aelfred2 though there may be
others. I suspect the problem might be able to be cured by linking to
the unmodified gnujaxp.jar instead of incorporating the Gnu code
directly in the dom4j code base.
That's correct. dom4j developers: would this be acceptable to you?
--
Chris Burdess
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