It's great that Sun has made most of Java open source. Unfortunately the JTA has not been revised recently, and is still distributed only under the old Sun license. It is not yet available under the CDDL.
This is a big problem to me, and I suspect to others. The JTA is a fundamental API, for example it is the recommended way of using Hibernate and other open source tools.
Our lawyers are unhappy about redistributing JTA, because it means accepting an unlimited liability for legal expenses that Sun might incur. I work at a national laboratory in the UK. We are not permitted to expose our government to unlimited liabilities, which seems reasonable.
Has anyone else had problems with this?
You can see the license by going to
http://java.sun.com/javaee/technologies/jta/index.jsp and then clicking the download button.
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