On Mon, 27 May 2002, Conor MacNeill wrote:
There is a section in all JCP specs that (aledgedly) require any
implementation to pass a test suite, otherwise it can't be distributed.
There are also requirements to distribute the full impl, not a subset.
Of course, xerces is a clean-room implementation ( but as it was discussed, it is not clear if clean-room is ok - and some people who contributed on the impl. have read the spec ).
Again, it all depends on how much you care about small prints and
how you want to interpret it. Some believe that are issues with the parts of the licence that restrict clean-room impl of a spec. And I doubt
Sun will sue ASF for this.
In any case, distributing Jaxp without Xalan can't be called a
'JAXP1.1 implementation', and can't pass the test suite ( since
1/2 tests are for XSLT ).
For an official answer you should contact Sam Ruby, or someone who
have access to the licensing list on ASF. All I can say is that distributing it without xalan makes me very uncomfortable.
OK thanks. IANAL either so the following is just my opinion :-)
According to the current JCP requirements I'm not sure we could distribute Ant with either Xerces or Xalan since I am not aware that either pass their JCP test suite (there may be some exemptions negotiated for Apache that I am unaware of). If the press releases were any guide, this issue should be resolved but I don't think the final resolution has happened yet.
You know, if what you contend is true, Xerces itself could not be distributed without Xalan :-)
If we do decide to include Xalan we need to figure out which xml-apis jar to include since Xerces and Xalan appear to use different versions :-( Can anyone vouch for the suitability of using Xerces with Xalan's xml-apis jar or do we have to take a leap of faith?
Conor
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