Re: [Rsslibj-developer] licenses

[Joseph O. <jo...@en...>]

Hello. I've been working under the assumption that RSSLibJ was BSD- or
Artistically-licensed. Formally, no decision has been made.

As far as EXML is concerned, the only real restriction is that it can't be
used to write an XML parser. I'm still waiting to see if it can be
distributed on sourceforge, from TME.

Porting the XML to JAXP has been considered. However, JAXP is very
difficult to work with, compared to EXML; EXML handles generation of the
XML for you from a DOM, for example, where JAXP requires manual
generation. Also, JAXP handles namespacing very poorly. As a result,
getting the equivalent functionality is no small amount of work. If you'd
like to invest it, please do; I wouldn't have an objection to removing the
EXML dependency. I just don't care to remove it myself, since I'm
comfortable with EXML and it does what I need it to VERY well, moreso than
the W3C's DOM API by leaps and bounds, in my opinion.

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Kate Rhodes wrote:

> I read the FAQ's reasoning behind using EXML but I was wondering if any
> consideration was being made towards using something with a less restrictive
> license.
>
> I finally got around to using RSSLibJ and it was nice, but the licensing on
> EXML is not something I'm really comfortable with and I'd have to recode
> RSSLibJ (which I don't want to do). Also, what's the license on RSSLibJ I
> can't seem to find it anywhere. It is just public domain?
>
> -Kate
>
>
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