Hi John,

> 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.
Even though I have not tested Axiom with Apache Geronimo StaX jars , I
am sure that Axiom should work if they have implement the StaX API.

>
> 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


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