BCL licenses/Sun jars

[Henri Yandell <ba...@generationjava.com>]

Searching through the various downloads currently available from Jakarta 
on the mirrors, I've got the following list of Sun jars with version 
numbers in brackets (or at least what the manifest had under 
Implementation-Version):

* activation.jar
* jaas.jar (fcs-q)
* jaxp.jar (1.1)
* jdbc2_0-stdext.jar 
* jmx.jar (1.2.1-b14)
* jndi.jar (built 1999)
* jta.jar (1.0.1)
* mail.jar (1.2)
* servlet.jar

Not sure about the last one. Hard to tell if it was built by us and we 
changed to calling it servletapi.jar later on or not. It was built by Ant, 
but that doesn't say a lot. Manifest is pretty empty.

So, a few questions.

1) Any thoughts on how to figure out the licensing on each one of these? I 
know activation and mail are BCL, but hard to find out for the rest. For 
example, the jaxp page only goes as far back as 1.3. Maybe we just assume 
the worst and declare them all unusable.

2) How many of these do we have solid ASF replacements for? Including 
implementation where applicable. Have any been released individually yet 
under CDDL? There's a big list at 
http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/geronimo-spec/, but few seem to be released 
and many look to be more recent versions of the spec than I imagine most 
people are currently compiling against.

3) Any major BCL licensed works that I'm missing? Probably many I'm 
assuming. Web Services stuff?

Hen