On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Eugene Zhukov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Luca Falavigna > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> could you please clarify license terms for the following files: >> src\main\java\javax\xml\xquery\*: >> Copyright # 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Oracle. All rights >> reserved. > > I've sent an email to upstream maintainer asking to clarify that.
Here is the replay: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Kay <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:24 PM Subject: Re: Saxon-HE copyright To: Eugene Zhukov <[email protected]> These Java interface definitions are taken from the XQJ specification, JSR 225, which you can find here: http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/final/jsr225/index.html along with the licensing terms. An extract of the license is: In addition, to the extent that an implementation of the Specification would be considered a derivative work under applicable law requiring a license grant from the holder of the copyright in the Specification, the Spec Lead grants a copyright license solely for the purpose of making and/or distributing an implementation of the Specification that: (a) except for the RI code licensed from Oracle under the RI License which is attached hereto as Exhibit B, does not include or otherwise make any use of the RI; (b) fully implements the Specification including all of its required interfaces and functionality; (c) does not modify, subset, superset or otherwise extend those public class or interface declarations whose names begin with “java;” and (d) passes the TCK. In other words: Saxon, as an implementation of the XQJ specification, takes advantage of the copyright license granted by Oracle, and satisifies the terms of this license insofar as it is a complete implementation of the specification and passes the TCK. NOTE: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. Michael Kay Saxonica __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use [email protected] for discussions and questions.
