Yeah, unfortunately, we can't release with IP issues like this.
However, Woodstox actually looks to be quite nice from a quick
glance. It's ASL. It's actively maintained (Stax is not). The
downside, of course, is we have virtually no running time w/ it.
On Sep 9, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Yonik Seeley wrote:
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Shalin Shekhar Mangar
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
Careful tracking and handling of IP rights is paramount at Apache.
Knowingly releasing something with questionable IP, when a drop-in
replacement exists, is something that could bring the ASF Board
crashing down on us (rightfully so). So unless some things are
cleared up on legal-discuss, I'm afraid I'm -1 on releasing in current
form.
(hey, is that my first -1 at Apache after all these years?)
-Yonik
