Last issue before voting on a distribution (was RE: CPL and Apache License 2.0)

[Cliff Schmidt <cl...@bea.com>]

In the continuing saga of trying to get a 1.0.1 release ready to be
voted on, I think we have two more issues remaining.  I believe we 
have now dealt with the previous two issues: 1) the package  and
namespace renaming for the issue that David Jencks found; and 
2) updating the licensing to the latest Apache License 2.0.  It 
appears that Eric and Cezar have taken care of these two issues.

Issue #1
However, while I was taking a look at what they fixed, I noticed
that the dist build includes JUnit, which is license under the CPL.
So, I posted a question about this to the licensing list and got  
a response from Brian (see below).  This means we need to remove
JUnit from being included in the build process.  If a user 
downloads the XMLBeans distribution and wants to use the JUnit 
tests, they're going to have to download JUnit separately.  We
can't include it within an Apache-licensed distribution.

Issue #2
Also, someone had asked about being able to include jaxen right 
in the distribution.  If we want to do this, I think we're okay 
with licensing, since their license is basically the same as the 
ASL 1.1.  

So, who can take care of removing JUnit from the build (and 
whatever else should go along with it)?

And, does anyone want to get jaxen into the build before we 
finalize the 1.0.1 distribution?

Once we address these two new issues, I think we are ready to 
propose a vote to our new PPMC on our first release (finally!).

Thanks,
Cliff


Brian Behlendorf wrote on Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:17 PM:

> In order for software to be includable in an Apache License 2.0
> release, the license on that software must be a strict subset of the
> Apache License - that is, it must not require the user to do anything
> that the Apache License itself does not require.  I've not read the
> CPL recently, but I assume this not to be the case.
> 
> 	Brian
> 
> On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Cliff Schmidt wrote:
>> Is the Common Public License compatible with the new Apache
>> License?  This question is partly motivated by an interest
>> to include JUnit within an Apache distribution, but I'm also
>> just curious for future reference.
>> 
>> In fact, does there exist a list of what licenses the ASF
>> believes are compatible with the new Apache License?  The
>> type of compatibility I'm referring to is what can be
>> shipped within an Apache distribution, not necessarily what
>> license could cover an Apache derivative (which I assume would be a
>> pretty long list). 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Cliff
>> 
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