[Fwd: [stax_builders] RE: License for StAX?]

[Aleksander Slominski <as...@cs.indiana.edu>]

forwarding the email below on behalf of Thorick who is not subscribed to
@apache mailing list.

i hope it clarifies the situation.

thanks,

Alek

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	[stax_builders] RE: License for StAX?
Date: 	Mon, 2 Jul 2007 16:55:07 -0700
From: 	Thorick Chow <th...@bea.com>
Reply-To: 	stax_builders@yahoogroups.com
To: 	Aleksander Slominski <as...@cs.indiana.edu>, <ge...@ws.apache.org>
CC: 	<wo...@ws.apache.org>, "STAX Builders"
<st...@yahoogroups.com>, "Larry Cable" <lc...@bea.com>,
"Thorick Chow" <th...@bea.com>
References:
<OF...@ca.ibm.com>
<ad...@mail.gmail.com>
<46...@cs.indiana.edu>



Hi,

The correct license for the StAX API is the Apache Software Foundation
2.0 version. 


Please note that officially there is no StAX 1.0.1 API.
My understanding is that this version of StAX contains a fix for the bad
XMLOutputFactory method:

public static XMLInputFactory newInstance(String factoryId, ClassLoader
classLoader) throws FactoryConfigurationError

Which incorrectly returns XMLInputFactory.

We have tried a number of times to officially fix this problem but have
been prevented from doing
So because JavaSE 6  went final with StAX 1.0 bundled in it before this
could be addressed.  Changind the method
Signature can cause JDK compatibility problems.

(note:  I'll be out of the office for the rest of the week and won't see
follow up mail for a while if there is any).

-thorick


-----Original Message-----
From: Aleksander Slominski [mailto:aslom@cs.indiana.edu] 
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 12:48 PM
To: general@ws.apache.org
Cc: woden-dev@ws.apache.org; STAX Builders; Thorick Chow; Larry Cable
Subject: Re: License for StAX?

The license for StAX API (and RI and for other implementation) is a very
complicated matter - i would recommend checking stax builders mailing
list archives for the latest and the only authoritative source i would
say is to ask BEA.they should be able to clarify it ...

thanks,

Alek

Jeremy Hughes wrote:
> On 27/06/07, Lawrence Mandel <lm...@ca.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Woden [1] is currently bundling the StAX jar (stax-api-1.0.1.jar) [2]

>> with our distribution. I've been reviewing the licenses of Woden's 
>> dependencies for the Woden incubation status file [3] and can't find 
>> the license for StAX. The jar doesn't contain a license file and the 
>> site states that StAX is licensed under Apache ASL 2.1, which I 
>> haven't heard of. (Does this
>> exist?)
>>
>> As Woden picked up this dependency from Axiom I think this is a good 
>> place to ask, does anyone know under what license StAX is distributed

>> and do you have a reference that  I can refer to?
>
> StAX (JSR 173) has a BEA license. It's printed at the beginning of the

> JSR 173 spec and has a paragraph headed 'license for the distribution 
> of compliant implementations'. This grants a '... limited license 
> (without the right to sublicense) ... to create and/or distribute an 
> implementation of the specification ...'
>
> IANAL so I don't know what license the implementation is allowed to be

> in that case.
>
> BTW: there's a StAX implementation in JSE 6 and the 
> jre/THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt file describes StAX (around line 651).
> But that doesn't really describe distribution, more what to do if you 
> want to create a derivative work.
>
> Axis2 includes a license file for the StAX APIs [4] ... don't know how

> this was arrived at though.
>
> Think we need to hop onto legal-discuss.
>
> [4]
> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/webservices/axis2/tags/java/v1.2/legal
> /std/stax-api-LICENSE.txt
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Lawrence
>>
>> [1] http://incubator.apache.org/woden/
>> [2] http://stax.codehaus.org/
>> [3] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/woden.html
>
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
>
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