[WODEN-165] SAX attribution in NOTICE file is not required

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: M8
• Assignee: John Alan William Kaputin
• Reporter: John Alan William Kaputin
• Created: 25/Jun/07 14:31
• Updated: 10/Jul/07 23:22
• Resolved: 10/Jul/07 23:22

Description

The NOTICE file includes the attribution:

This product includes also software developed by :
.....

• the SAX project (http://www.saxproject.org)

This attribution should be removed as the Woden source does not include any SAX code. The Woden binary distribution does include the Apache Xerces binary jar files which do contain SAX binary code, but the LICENSE.sax file distributed with Woden is sufficient to cover the use of this binary code.

This attribution was probably added originally because the org.apache.woden.ErrorLocator interface javadoc says "Based on org.xml.sax.Locator". This not strictly correct and should be removed. The Woden ErrorLocator does have methods to get the line and column number of the error within a file, but this is the only similarity with the SAX Locator interface and is also similar to many other parser, interpreter and compiler technologies.