Re: [Classpathx-xml] Re: [dom4j-dev] GNU JAXP license violation

[Paul Libbrecht]

Le 5 nov. 04, à 05:14, David Brownell a écrit :

> > AElfred has been under public-domain originally... and now there is be
> > a revision that would be under a way more restricted, namely, under 
> > GPL
> > !?
> Hey, if YOU take a bunch of not-very-conformant and old code
> and rework it substantially to conform to all then-current
> standards, speeding it up and shrinking it considerably, then
> you'd get to make the choice of license on your changes too.

Sure... to me the problem is only about the leap between 
"public-domain" and GPL... it's like going to prison... (but I know FSF 
people would say it differently!).

> Please stop spreading FUD by the way:  the license in question
> has never been literally "GPL".  Though now that FSF has the
> copyright on my updates, ClasspathX could choose that one.

Can you then clarify ?

> > How about trying the AElfred version including in the Open-Source 
> > Saxon
> > 6 (and maybe the open-source part of saxon >= 7). Modifications were
> > under Mozilla Public License which I find more comfortable to work
> > with...
> Hmm, the last time I looked at SAXON it included my version,
> so it couldn't legally be relicensed under MPL.

Well, of course, I didn't check version differences but the web-page 
stated that it was based on the public-domain AElfred followed by 
adaptations to make it namespace aware. The latter adaptations were 
under MPL and he kept the public-domain for the original, he could have 
put it entirely under MPL, as I understand.

paul