On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 09:41 -0400, Grant Ingersoll 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.

The problematic part was (thanks to Yonik who fixed this so quick) the
API. The API is from Sun and not from BEA and does not have an ASL.

However using woodstox and the geronimo rewrite of the stax api is IP
wise the best move.

salu2

> 
> 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
> >
> > Thoughts/Objections?
> >
> > -Yonik
> 
> 
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Thorsten Scherler                                 thorsten.at.apache.org
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