Re: [dom4j-dev] GNU JAXP license violation

Gee, that tastes quite ugly.

AElfred has been under public-domain originally... and now there is be 
a revision that would be under a way more restricted, namely, under GPL 
!?

How about trying the AElfred version including in the Open-Source Saxon 
6 (and maybe the open-source part of saxon >= 7). Modifications were 
under Mozilla Public License which I find more comfortable to work 
with...

What's expected of the AElfred ?

paul



Le 4 nov. 04, à 14:15, Elliotte Harold a écrit :

> 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.
>
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