Question directed towards Cliff Schmidt but open to all to answer. Is the "Sun Community Source Licence" Apache compatable?
I'm wondering about this for doing the backport build of the Java client to 1.4. SASL was first added to Java as JSR28 and became part of 1.5. In order to use it in 1.4 we need to depend on the API jar for 1.4. This can be found at: http://www.worldspot.com/jsr28/ License terms for this can be found here: http://www.worldspot.com/jsr28/jsr28_bizterms.txt I've noticed that recently a lot of Sun API jars have become available on the Maven repository (Look under http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/javax/). This includes the JMS 1.1 API, for which we are currently using the one found under org.apache.geronimo.specs. Sun jars under maven have always been a bit of a problem because for licencing reasons they couldn't be included in the repository. Now it seems that many of them are, presumably because of Java itself becoming open sourced? If it is acceptable, I'd like to submit a request to get this JSR28 jar added to the maven repository too, and to use it. - Rupert
