Re: GNU JAXP license violation

I asked this some time ago and their was no problem as long as the 
license file was included with dom4j. However, I can't find the start of 
the thread on the mailinglist:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/classpathx-discuss/2004-03/msg00006.html

If their is a problem with it, I'll remove the sources from dom4j ...

Maarten

Chris Burdess wrote:

> 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?