Topic came up for me recently and there were 3 open source prior arts that
I found:

http://weblogs.flamefew.net/bayard/archives/000789.html#000789

Informa: LGPL
rss4j  : Demands Xerces.
rsslibj: Hard to find exml dependency.

I ended up using the third option.

Hen

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Kevin A. Burton wrote:

> My company wants to contribute the following API to Jakarta.
>
> http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2003/11/10/FeedParserAnRSSParserAPIForJava
>
> (you can make comments here or in my weblog... either way)
>
> I've contributed a lot of work to Apache before (Tomcat, Turbine,
> Jetspeed, Alexandria, etc.) so I'm pretty familiar with the process.
>
> The API is still young so I think the ideal spot would be in Jakarta
> commons.
>
> What I want to do right now is:
>
> 1. Find out if Apache has any interest in this code.
>
> 2. Find out what legal documents my company has to process for this to
> be adopted.  We have to have our lawyers review this.
>
> 3. Figure out what legal documents *I* have to sign ...
>
> Right now we are working on two products that will use this code... one
> of which will be NewsMonster 2.0 ( http://newsmonster.org ).
>
> My plans for release would be to make the contribution to the ASF and
> then release a 0.5 release in about a month.
>
> Unfortunately I don't think I can make the source available until I have
> our lawyers take a look at #2 so if I can't get an answer to #1 until
> that point I understand.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kevin
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