Thorsten Scherler wrote: > David Crossley wrote: > > > > There is a big concern that i should have raised before. > > You have made the STAX jar a dependency, and your > > whiteboard/dispatcher/README.txt mentions license issues. > > Only to include it directly (as add a copy to the lib dir). It is > included in the 6.0 jdk but in 1.5 not. > > I thought about to add ivy support and let ivy resolve it the first > time.
We are not to work around ASF license concerns, but rather work within them. Using Maven or Ivy does not absolve us. See http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html and the legal-discuss archives. -David > > Please see the legal-discuss mailing list over the last > > couple of years. This has come up a few times, but sorry > > i cannot recall the outcome. > > > > Also see the recent Board report from Apache XML Commons > > and their recent mailing lists. > > http://wiki.apache.org/xerces/August2008 > > They discussed that same problem and added an API > > to xml-commons-external. > > I will have a look at this API rewrite and will preferable use that. > > Thanks for pointing out. > > salu2 > -- > Thorsten Scherler thorsten.at.apache.org > Open Source Java consulting, training and solutions >
