Re: Re: [dom4j-dev] GNU JAXP license violation

On Nov 5, 2004, at 1:42 AM, Chris Burdess wrote:

> Scott Sanders wrote:
>> However, I would also say that the GNU JAXP project is in violation 
>> of the orignal license, as the changes made are not 'clearly 
>> documented'.  Refer to the aelfred license, and the sentence stating: 
>> "You are free to modify AElfred for your own use and
>> // to redistribute AElfred with your modifications, provided that the
>> // modifications are clearly documented."
>>
>> Are there any changes?  If there are, dom4j is in violation as well 
>> as GNU JAXP.  If there are no changes, then dom4j may just import the 
>> original non-GPL sources, and there are no violations.
>>
>> Viewing the cvsweb for GNU JAXP, it seems that there are some changes.
>
> We have made significant changes to the Ælfred codebase, in order to 
> improve both performance and conformance to the SAX specification. 
> These changes are documented in the file ChangeLog.gnujaxp in the GNU 
> JAXP distribution. Do you feel that they should be documented 
> elsewhere too?
> -- 
>
That would seem fine to me

Scott