We recently noticed this problem also and have removed all the sun
schemas from our distributions and active svn branches. Earlier
releases (up through 1.1) included the j2ee 1.4 schemas, and we
haven't made any attempt to stop distributing them or modify the svn
tags for the releases to remove the sun schemas.
What we've done is to put the sun schemas in the non-public tck repo
and generate xmlbeans artifacts from them. We distribute the
xmlbeans source and compiled classes, while removing the actual
schemas themselves.
This does seem slightly silly since sun does not require a click-
through license to access them from the web: we could also have
generated the xmlbeans artifacts by downloading the schemas at build
time. I decided against this approach because it would prevent
offline builds and because sun has sometimes changed the schemas
without changing any versioning info and I'd prefer to know what it
is we are building from.
IIUC Geir would be the one to negotiate a license and since IIRC he
pointed out the problem to us I assume he regards it as extremely
unlikely that we can get a license to redistribute the files.
thanks
david jencks
On Oct 30, 2006, at 6:46 AM, Dan Diephouse wrote:
CC'ing cxf-dev and apache legal, as it pertains to Geronimo, but I
think it would be good for us (CXF) to hear from legal The part of
the license that concerns me is this:
No part of this document may be reproduced in any form by any means
without prior written authorization of Sun and its licensors, if any.
Does G have prior written authorization to include it as part of
the source distro? Does Apache as a whole? Can we as an incubating
project redistribute this in our source distribution? If not can we
do so temporarily until we're able to obtain authorization?
- Dan
Bozhong Lin wrote:
re-sending with Java EE schema URL links included:
[1] http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/javaee_5.xsd
[2] http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/j2ee_1_4.xsd
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Java EE schema license question
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:31:05 +0800
From: Bozhong Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: dev@geronimo.apache.org
Hi,
Apache CXF currently use java EE 5 [1] schema, and would like to
include
the schema in distribution if that is allowed from copyright
perspective. From the copyright statement included in the schema
file,
it seems to be very strict for redistribution. I found that Geronimo
source distribution includes java EE 1.4 schema [2], which has
similar
copyright statement. I just wonder if this ever was a legal issue for
you guys, and how you guys get around of this if so?
Thanks for the insight!
Cheers,
Bo
--
Dan Diephouse
Envoi Solutions
http://envoisolutions.com
http://netzooid.com/blog
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