I have successfully compiled and tested Woden's OM implementation using the StAX api jar from Apache Geronimo. I'd like to know if Axiom could use this jar file instead of the Codehaus stax-api-1.0.1.jar file. This would resolve one remaining issue we have on the Woden incubator status file [1] about verifying licenses for software included in the distribution. This change would require a more thorough test of Axiom than my Woden-specific test.
The remaining issue we have concerns the license file specified for the Codehaus stax-api-1.0.1.jar file in the Axiom distribution. Axiom specifies the Apache 2.0 license, but we have not yet been able to determine with certainty how the Axiom project came to use ASL 2.0 for this jar file. ASL 2.0 is not included in the original codehaus jar file and there's no reference to ASL 2.0 on the StAX api project at the codehaus website. We did get some responses a while back saying that: a) licensing of StAX is complicated b) ASL 2.0 is the correct license (but without any explanation of why) c) BEA is the only authorative source I think the simplest option is to use the Geronimo StAX API jar (with it's ASL 2.0 license). Alternatively, I'll have to try the legal-discuss list to try to resolve the license question. [1] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/woden.html regards, John Kaputin
