Re: GNU JAXP license violation

Elliotte Harold wrote:
> dom4j appears to be in violation of the GNUJAXP License unless it has 
> special permission from the FSF. Does it?

I'm not aware of any such permission.

> 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.

That's correct. dom4j developers: would this be acceptable to you?
-- 
Chris Burdess