>>Has anyone tried to contact leads on existing implementations? I'm aware >>that there are licensing issues.
> Mozilla-licensed Saxon does not have licensing issues. Hmm. If you are a lawyer representing the Apache Software Foundation, I will open my eyes wide in surprise and say, "Cool! Saxindice!" I don't care to debate the nature of the Mozilla license. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but Apache software is released under the Apache license, an "open and pragmatic software license". Therefore, what matters is whether or not the Saxon project's members will re-license their software under the Apache license. If so, then there's no problem. Has anyone contacted their team? Otherwise, the choices are: 1) Find someone else who will release their XQuery implementation under the Apache license 2) Build a custom XQuery implementation from scratch While the latter would be educational and enjoyable for some, the former gives a real head start. I apologize if I am out of bounds, beating a dead horse, etc. I am simply very interested in an Apache-licensed native XML database that supports XQuery.
