[XML-SIG] WSDL library ?

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Wed, 13 Feb 2002 10:43:40 +0100


Uche Ogbuji wrote:
> 
> > Eron Lloyd wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been playing with wsdllib, from a IBM developerWorks article by Uche.
> > > I've attached the actual module for you to look at. The article can be found
> > > here:
> > > http://www-105.ibm.com/developerworks/education.nsf/webservices-onlinecourse-bytitle/D092605075D1D67D86256A7E0042432D?OpenDocument
> >
> > That's the one I meant: the licensing for that module isn't
> > clear though (at least not to me).
> 
> IANAL, but the way I read it, the IBM OSS license we use is less restrictive
> than even that of mxDateTime  ;-).
> 
> We didn't mind using it because it's OSI approved.

So the IBM OSS license does apply to the lib there ? That was
basically what I was unsure about because even though the
site mentions that all software is published under the OSS license,
the source code gives no mention (not even a copyright).
 
> The main problem is maintenance.  Neither Mike nor I have had a moment to
> maintain it, though we have considered incorporating it into 4Suite, and
> updating it as we do so.  But it comes with no promises: we can't even stick
> to 4Suite release schedules.

Since it heavily relies on 4Suite this would probably be the 
best thing to do. If it breaks we'll yell out loud ;-) (and
provide patches, of course...).

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