On 27/06/07, Lawrence Mandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Woden [1] is currently bundling the StAX jar (stax-api-1.0.1.jar) [2] with
our distribution. I've been reviewing the licenses of Woden's dependencies
for the Woden incubation status file [3] and can't find the license for
StAX. The jar doesn't contain a license file and the site states that StAX
is licensed under Apache ASL 2.1, which I haven't heard of. (Does this
exist?)
As Woden picked up this dependency from Axiom I think this is a good place
to ask, does anyone know under what license StAX is distributed and do you
have a reference that I can refer to?
StAX (JSR 173) has a BEA license. It's printed at the beginning of the
JSR 173 spec and has a paragraph headed 'license for the distribution
of compliant implementations'. This grants a '... limited license
(without the right to sublicense) ... to create and/or distribute an
implementation of the specification ...'
IANAL so I don't know what license the implementation is allowed to be
in that case.
BTW: there's a StAX implementation in JSE 6 and the
jre/THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt file describes StAX (around line 651).
But that doesn't really describe distribution, more what to do if you
want to create a derivative work.
Axis2 includes a license file for the StAX APIs [4] ... don't know how
this was arrived at though.
Think we need to hop onto legal-discuss.
[4]
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/webservices/axis2/tags/java/v1.2/legal/std/stax-api-LICENSE.txt
Thanks,
Lawrence
[1] http://incubator.apache.org/woden/
[2] http://stax.codehaus.org/
[3] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/woden.html
Cheers,
Jeremy
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