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i hope it clarifies the situation. thanks, Alek -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [stax_builders] RE: License for StAX? Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:55:07 -0700 From: Thorick Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Aleksander Slominski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <general@ws.apache.org> CC: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "STAX Builders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Larry Cable" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Thorick Chow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, The correct license for the StAX API is the Apache Software Foundation 2.0 version. Please note that officially there is no StAX 1.0.1 API. My understanding is that this version of StAX contains a fix for the bad XMLOutputFactory method: public static XMLInputFactory newInstance(String factoryId, ClassLoader classLoader) throws FactoryConfigurationError Which incorrectly returns XMLInputFactory. We have tried a number of times to officially fix this problem but have been prevented from doing So because JavaSE 6 went final with StAX 1.0 bundled in it before this could be addressed. Changind the method Signature can cause JDK compatibility problems. (note: I'll be out of the office for the rest of the week and won't see follow up mail for a while if there is any). -thorick -----Original Message----- From: Aleksander Slominski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 12:48 PM To: general@ws.apache.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; STAX Builders; Thorick Chow; Larry Cable Subject: Re: License for StAX? 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 Notice: This email message, together with any attachments, may contain information of BEA Systems, Inc., its subsidiaries and affiliated entities, that may be confidential, proprietary, copyrighted and/or legally privileged, and is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity named in this message. 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