The license for StAX API (and RI and for other implementation) is a very complicated matter - i would recommend checking stax builders mailing list archives for the latest and the only authoritative source i would say is to ask BEA.they should be able to clarify it ...
thanks, Alek Jeremy Hughes wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- The best way to predict the future is to invent it - Alan Kay --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
