Re: GNU JAXP license violation
Nic Ferrier <[email protected]>
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Elliotte Harold <[email protected]> writes: > dom4j appears to be in violation of the GNUJAXP License unless it has > special permission from the FSF. Does it? > > Specifically the latest release of dom4j (and probably earlier releases) > has taken the code from GNU JAXP, *modified it*, and incorporated it > into its code base which is published under a BSD license. They are not > merely linking to the GPL code as permitted by the GPL with library > exception. > > The modifications are probably not major. The only one I know of is > changing the package name to org.dom4j.aelfred and org.dom4j.aelfred2 > instead of gnu.jaxp.aelfred/gnu.jaxp.aelfred2 though there may be > others. I suspect the problem might be able to be cured by linking to > the unmodified gnujaxp.jar instead of incorporating the Gnu code > directly in the dom4j code base. The exception licence should allow linking like that. Dog? Let me know if you want any help with this. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk