> In fact the jars we had in our struts2-ext 1.0.3 release candidate > were taken from Tomcat 5.5. The manifest says: > > Manifest-Version: 1.0 > Ant-Version: Apache Ant 1.6.5 > Created-By: 1.4.2_11-b06 (Sun Microsystems Inc.) > > Name: javax/servlet/ > Specification-Title: Java API for Servlets > Specification-Version: 2.4 > Specification-Vendor: Sun Microsystems, Inc. > Implementation-Title: javax.servlet > Implementation-Version: 2.4.public_draft > Implementation-Vendor: Apache Software Foundation > > Thomas investigated this and said it was not permitted to distribute > those. This was the main reason why he rejected the release. > Martijn agreed with that too. > > @Thomas: since Tomcat is distributing them, why can't we?
I was not aware that Tomcat is distributing the libraries under ASL. I was under the impression that only Sun is distributing those and as such I looked at Sun for the license, and found CDDL there. Sorry for that. @Henning: the thread is http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/200809.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thomas
