XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 2:53 PM -0400 6/3/03, Rogers Cadenhead wrote:


> I think my licensing section (reproduced below) complies with XOM's
> GNU Lesser Public License and Xerces' Apache Software License.

I've heard people claim that the Apache and GPL license are 
incompatible because of warranty and naming issues, but IANALL (I am 
not a license lawyer.)

> Since it's a GPL project, I figure there isn't much chance I violated
> XOM's LGPL. I am curious, though, what my other options were. Can I
> use XOM's JAR file without modification in a commercial project?
> --

Sure. As long as you only use it as a library (i.e. don't modify XOM 
itself) you're free to bundle it with anything. And if anybody asks 
you have to give them the source for XOM, but that's not a big deal 
in the age of the net. It doesn't infect your own code unless you go 
beyond using it as a library.
--

  Elliotte Rusty Harold
  elharo AT metalab.unc.edu
  Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
  http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA