Lance, I think you can safely delete these files without impacting your application (although your app may go out to the internet and attempt to resolve the dtd reference if the files are not available locally).
I do see a license file located in the following location which does appear to grant redistribution. This should cover the proprietary issue since it's being used according to the license terms. META-INF/licenses/sundtd-LICENSE.txt These files cannot be considered "confidential" as they are deliberately published for public use at the following URLs: http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_0.dtd http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-facesconfig_1_0.dtd On 4/2/07, Lance Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am disturbed by the web-facesconfig_1_0.dtd and web-facesconfig_1_1.dtd files included in myfaces-impl-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar. The prolog in both files says <!-- Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms. --> I'm willing to believe that a Sun developer forgot to clean up the prologs when these DTD files were released, but I don't want to lose my job because I have distributed restricted SUN property. I have done some homework. The subject files are available from the Sun Developers Site at http://java.sun.com/dtd/ where Sun declares that "Unless otherwise licensed, code in all technical manuals herein (including articles, FAQs, samples) is provided under this License." and "this License" links to the same Sun License included in myfaces-impl-1.2.0-SNAPSHOT.jar. The problem is that this blanket statement does not apply to something declared proprietary/confidential; something declared proprietary/confidential is "otherwise licensed" and cannot be distributed. Can someone show me evidence that Sun permits these files to be distributed? Maybe there is a special agreement with the Apache Software Foundation that can be referenced. Are these files just included as a convenience? What would break if I just removed them from the JAR? It's not a perfect world, Lance
