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Re: any estimate on when jaxb2 will be under the bcla?

From: jonathan gold <dev_at_samizdatdigital.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:03:44 -0700

Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:
>
> Looking at http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=222, it's past public
> review period. So the next step is proposed final draft review, and I
> think it will start very soon. If PFD completes without any significant
> problem, it will go final at the end of the review period (or something
> like that.)
>
> So I think it's sometime early next year.
>
> jonathan gold wrote:
>
>> i've been using jaxb2ea successfully for awhile for testing, and would
>> like to start building some production services on top of it, but i
>> don't think it'll be covered under the current license that ships with
>> the EA release of jaxb2. are there plans to release it under a
>> different license?
>
>
> The latest codebase is covered under CDDL (this I can say with much
> confidence.)
>
> And I think CDDL allows you to build a production services on top of it,
> re-distribute it, or modify the RI source code (this I say with much
> less confidence --- I should read CDDL some day.) If my understanding is
> correct (which I'm not very confident), I don't see any legal problem in
> using JAXB RI 2.0 as it is today.
>
> You should read CDDL yourself and see if it allows you to do so or not.
>
>
>> i'm not interested in distributing it -- i just want to use it to help
>> power a production server.
>
>
> But beware, as we've been making changes since EA2...
>

thanks. i like jaxb2 enough that i'd rather keep up with changes between
the EA versions than start building new stuff with 1.1 just to upgrade
later.

:)

jon