We have released with StaX earlier. We have never tested in production environments with woodstox. Even though I doubt there will be a problem but we can never know unless we use it. Let's not delay 1.3 anymore. We can make this change for 1.4
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 7:11 PM, Grant Ingersoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Arg. I'm torn. We've released it before, which of course doesn't make it > right. However, if you check out the Stax code, it is all there and > licensed as ASL. You would think we could take their word for it. However, > the problem is that now someone has cast doubt on whether that code was > truly donated. It's further complicated by the fact that Oracle has now > bought BEA, and much of the resources for JIRA, etc. listed on the mailing > list page are dead and the stuff is virtually non-existent on Oracle's > pages. > > In the end, it is probably easier to just make the switch. These last > minute changes are not fun. > > -Grant > > > On Sep 8, 2008, at 5:27 PM, Yonik Seeley wrote: > > Someone brought up an issue with the StAX licensem, and after digging >> through legal-discuss archives it seems the easiest way forward is to >> perhaps replace it with the geronimo stax API and the woodstox >> implementation. >> >> I brought it up on legal-discuss again, but I'm not hopeful of an >> unequivocal answer. >> http://markmail.org/search/?q=StAX+(JSR+173)+License<http://markmail.org/search/?q=StAX+%28JSR+173%29+License> >> >> Thoughts/Objections? >> >> -Yonik >> > > > -- Regards, Shalin Shekhar Mangar.
