If you're subscribed to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list, you'll be aware that there have been some recent policty decisions with the goal of tightening down on the licenses of packages that are shipped inside Apache software products. When looking at our Struts distributions, the only software that is *not* originally Apache code is the JDBC 2.0 optional package, which defines things like javax.sql.DataSource.
The Sun license under which jdbc2_0-stdext.jar was downloaded allows redistribution when packaged in the manner we are doing so -- but, it seems to me, that we don't really need to supply it. Any servlet container that supports data sources is going to have it available already (as will anyone running a 1.4 or later JDK, which incorporates these APIs already). Therefore, I propose to remove it from the binary distributions of Struts that we create. This package will continue to be a compile-time dependency for building Struts itself, so anyone who builds Struts from source (and isn't running on 1.4) will need to provide this. That's fine -- the developer will have had to accept the license terms to acquire this JAR file, and it's not our issue any longer. If we make this change, Struts will become a "100% Apache Code" distribution, which will be fun to crow about a little, too :-). Comments? Craig --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
