Hi, Ah yes: if you've got access to the Foundation svn repository (ASF Members have access), you can check out Correspondence/Sun for the Memorandum of Understanding from 1999 that covers this I think (IANAL of course). It's makes for fun historical reading ;)
Yoav On 12/6/06, Yoav Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, I believe they're covered by Sun's intellectual property grant for the ASF made when they donated the initial version of Tomcat years ago. The grant paperwork should be available electronically in the Foundation repository. I'll try to look for the exact place. Yoav On 12/6/06, Kevan Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see that Tomcat binary distributions (and source tree) contains Sun > j2ee xsd's and dtd's (an ASL v2 license has even been applied to them). > > Since the files are Copyrighted by Sun and state: > > 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. > > Can someone help me understand what rights the ASF holds to > redistribute these files? > > The Geronimo project had some of these xsd's and dtd's in our source > tree, which we went through some pains to remove. I've just found > other occurrences in the geronimo specs source tree and I'm trying to > figure out how to proceed... > > --kevan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
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