[Classpathx-xml] GNU JAXP license violation

[Elliotte Harold]

dom4j appears to be in violation of the GNUJAXP License unless it has 
special permission from the FSF. Does it?

Specifically the latest release of dom4j (and probably earlier releases) 
has taken the code from GNU JAXP, *modified it*, and incorporated it 
into its code base which is published under a BSD license. They are not 
merely linking to the GPL code as permitted by the GPL with library 
exception.

The modifications are probably not major. The only one I know of is 
changing the package name to org.dom4j.aelfred and org.dom4j.aelfred2 
instead of gnu.jaxp.aelfred/gnu.jaxp.aelfred2 though there may be 
others. I suspect the problem might be able to be cured by linking to 
the unmodified gnujaxp.jar instead of incorporating the Gnu code 
directly in the dom4j code base.

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