[jdom-interest] jdom and dom4j

[Jason Hunter]

The first release of dom4j was based on JDOM code.  If you don't believe
me, I can dig up references.  That defines it as a fork.  

http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/f/fork.html

Over time the codebases have of course diverged.  Yet looking through
the dom4j I do still see remnants of the old JDOM code.  I don't think
dom4j ever did a clean room restart.  

Hmm, yet I don't see any reference to the JDOM license as is required. 
Even if they rewrote basically all the code over time, I'm pretty sure
it's still a derived work legally speaking.  That puts them in violation
of the JDOM license since they removed the required JDOM copyright
notice and the other license clauses.

-jh-

Dennis Sosnoski wrote:
> 
> Jason, I know your feelings about this but (AFAIK) the dom4j codebase
> does not contain any JDOM code so it's inaccurate to describe it as a
> fork of JDOM.