Having raised this in the legal-discuss mailing list, the result was that there is actually no issue to worry about here. See http://mail-archives.eu.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/200501.mbox/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
for details.
With this in mind we need to consider what, if anything, to do now. I see the following options:
TC5
- Need to populate o.a.c.util.CharsetMapperDefault.properties
Options
1. Do nothing. Wait for patches to be submitted.
2. Re-instate the contents of the properties file based on Jason's previous class and include appropriate text in the NOTICE file. Something like:
<notice>
o.a.c.util.CharsetMapperDefault.properties is based on code originally written by Jason Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] as part of the book "Java Servlet Programming" (O'Reilly). See <a href="http://www.servlets.com/book";>http://www.servlets.com/book</a> for more information. Used with permission under the Apache 1.1 license.
</notice>
TC4 - Don't need to do anything Options 1. Do nothing 2. Port Remy's enhancements to o.a.c.util.CharsetMapper
TC3 - Uses o.a.t.util.http.LocalToCharSetMap which has been deleted Options 1. Re-instate the file. 2. Work around it as suggested in Bill's previous e-mail
My own views are: TC 5 - option 2 TC 4 - option 2 TC 3 - option 1 (less effort for us)
I think we're going nowhere. If the ASF doesn't make it clear that there are no redistribution IP issues because of licensing pollution, then I don't think my company will feel safe continuing contributing to this project since our customers will no longer feel confident using our product. This is a problem ;) It's as simple as that. So we would have to start maintaining our own branch, which basically means forking. I suppose every vendor does that, of course, but it's still quite disppointing (as then, the temptation exists to "add value" to our own tree) ...
Tomcat will work perfectly well without this code, so I do not see the point reintroducing it accompanied with ambiguous legal and advertising statements. This "code" (it's a set of name value pairs, so it's not really code actually) was improperly sneaked into the Tomcat codebase, so I think we should get rid of it.
Rémy
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