Hi folks, First of all, let me say that I am a huge dom4j fan. I think dom4j is one of the most useful libraries around. I now put dom4j on my cereal every morning instead of milk!
I'm currently packaging a release of an open-source project that includes dom4j (http://www.xmltester.org). Naturally, I am going to give due credit to the dom4j project. I think it is also my responsibility to provide credit to the authors of libraries included WITH dom4j. However, it's not clear to me how to do so. Hence this missive. The Dom4j 1.3 distribution includes the jars shown below, but does not (as far as I can tell) include a file identifying the source of each jar, the type of license that jar carries, or what version of the library is included. I don't want to be a weenie, but isn't this sort of a minor violation of the license of at least the apache components (xalan, xerces, ant, etc.)? Redistribution of these jars requires including a statement in the documentation like "This product includes software developed by the Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/)"? I know it's a pain-in-the-editor to attribute all this stuff, but isn't that one of the debts we owe each other as open source developers? I know what a lot of these jars are. I can go search and find out where each of the other files comes from, but it won't be easy for me to guess what version is included. It sure would be nice to have an authoritative list of credits from the authors. If I simply missed these attributions in the documentation, I beg of you a thousand pardons. Your Pal, Bulby (aka Stu Baurmann) Included in dom4j/lib ---------------------------------------- PullParser11.jar PullParser2.jar Tidy.jar ant.jar crimson.jar isorelax.jar jakarta-ant-1.4.1-optional.jar jaxen.jar jaxp.jar junit.jar msv.jar relaxngDatatype.jar saxpath.jar xalan.jar xerces-1.2.3.jar xmldb.jar xsdlib.jar ./fop: avalon-framework-4.0.jar batik.jar fop.jar jimi-1.0.jar logkit-1.0b4.jar xalanj1compat.jar ./tool: saxon.jar xerces.jar ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
