Hi - The ASF Secretary has on hand a Software Grant Agreement (SGA) from BEA Systems, Inc. dated 9 Sep 2003 for XMLBeans signed by their EVP/CFO. We have the license to distribute the code.
All the best, Dave Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 14, 2022, at 4:48 PM, PJ Fanning <fannin...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > > Hi Jan, > I would suggest that since this is you and your company's problem, that you > might need to invest some of of your own time on it. It's possible that > someone on the list might be able to fill in some info but this project is > nearly 20 years old and a lot of the details are no longer at the front of > people's minds. > > I found https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46756 and this fills > in some useful detail. It would appear that the reason to keep the BEA > reference in the NOTICE.txt is because of BEA doing a lot of the early work > on XMLBeans. Have a read of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_XMLBeans for > some background. > > The POI and XMLBeans code is on Subversion (with Git mirrors) so the file > changes are searchable. The POI and XMLBeans email lists are also searchable. > > You could also contact Oracle as they appear to have acquired BEA and its > copyrights. > > Best of luck, > PJ > > > > > > On Tuesday 14 June 2022, 08:17:20 IST, Jan Dornseifer > <jan.dornsei...@tebisproleis.com> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > we are currently subject to a license audit of our software, where also 3rd > party FOSS components are checked for usage. In the NOTICE file the following > part came to our attention: > > > This product contains parts that were originally based on software from BEA. > > Copyright (c) 2000-2003, BEA Systems, http://www.bea.com/ (dead link), > > which was acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2008. > > http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/Acquisitions/bea/index.html > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEA_Systems > > Is any licensing information known? I could not find any in my own research, > so I would like to take the chance to ask this question via the mailing list. > > > Best regards, > Jan > > > Tebis ProLeiS GmbH; Einsteinstrasse 39; 82152 Martinsried/Planegg; Tel. +49 > 89 81803 0; Fax. -8200 > Sitz der Gesellschaft: Martinsried/Planegg; Registergericht Muenchen, HRB > 235852; Gesch?ftsf?hrer: Robert Aulbur, Dr. Klaus Dieter Born > > Hinweis > Der Inhalt dieser E-Mail ist ausschliesslich fuer den bezeichneten Adressaten > bestimmt. Wenn Sie nicht der vorgesehene Adressat dieser E-Mail oder dessen > Vertreter sein sollten, so beachten Sie bitte, dass jede Form der > Kenntnisnahme, Veroeffentlichung, Vervielfaeltigung oder Weitergabe des > Inhalts dieser E-Mail unzulaessig ist. Wir bitten Sie, sich in diesem Fall > mit dem Absender der E-Mail in Verbindung zu setzen. > > Disclaimer > The information contained in this email is intended solely for the addressee. > Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the > intended recipient, any form of disclosure, reproduction, distribution or any > action taken or refrained from in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be > unlawful. Please notify the sender immediately. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@poi.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@poi.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@poi.apache.org
