By my reading of the Apache License, Version 2.0 (which is the XML Security license), you are under no obligation to distribute source code.
Of course, if you plan to distribute the code for your project, that pretty much has to include your modifications to XML Security code. If that's the situation, consider opening a bug report and attaching a patch that implements the desired change. I know nothing of the code in question, but it sounds to me like it would be better to conditionally skip the call to addReturnToElement() rather than changing its behavior. With a name like that, I think it would be astonishing if it didn't add a line break under any circumstances. Of course, you'd ideally have a clean, flexible, robust mechanism for controlling where breaks are added. -----Original Message----- From: Michael McIntosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:28 PM To: security-dev@xml.apache.org Subject: What is XMLUtils::addReturnToElement for? I know what XMLUtils::addReturnToElement does, by why do it? I acknowledge that adding the occasional line to an XML document makes it more readable in certain circumstances, but I'd really like to be able to turn it off. Actually I'd like to leave it alone, but a system I need to interoperate with cannot accept Signatures with whitespaces in certain places. No need to tell me its should be allowed - I know - but I cannot change their code. I have a fix - which is to change the source code for the funciton to turn it into a no-op when a system property is set, but I'd like to not need to redistribute my modified Apache source code. Thanks, Mike Michael McIntosh Java and Web Services Security Group Security, Privacy, and Extensible Technologies Department IBM Research
