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PJ Fanning commented on KARAF-7976:
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https://github.com/apache/karaf/blob/fa669fb5a54b045b486a312fd4e43bda53c8b7d0/specs/java.xml.ws/src/main/java/javax/xml/soap/MessageFactory.java

Another example but this javax.xml.soap class has to the best of my knowledge 
dual licensing - CDDL and GPL. CDDL is Category B in 
https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html but that still means that you can't 
copy its code into Karaf unless you have some dispensation that I don't know of.

> Karaf appears to include GPL licensed code
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KARAF-7976
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-7976
>             Project: Karaf
>          Issue Type: Task
>            Reporter: PJ Fanning
>            Priority: Major
>
> The ASF does not allow Apache projects to use GPL code.
> https://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html
> Here is one example but there are other classes in your karaf repo that 
> appear to be copies of Java built-in javax.xml classes. Those javax.xml 
> classes are GPL licensed regardless of what header you have put on them - 
> unless someone from Oracle has granted to them to your project so that you 
> can change the license.
> https://github.com/apache/karaf/blob/fa669fb5a54b045b486a312fd4e43bda53c8b7d0/specs/java.xml/src/main/java/javax/xml/parsers/SAXParserFactory.java
> The original file with its GPL license header.
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/5e40fb6bda1d56e3eba584b49aa0b68096b34169/src/java.xml/share/classes/javax/xml/parsers/SAXParserFactory.java
> I would appreciate if someone could review this soon. I will bring this to 
> the attention of the ASF Legal team in a few weeks. There may be a reason to 
> allow you to have this source code but could you share it here?



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