Spring license

[ChrisCross]

Hi,

first of all: I didn`t find a better forum to place this so I took the "Meta" forum.

How are your plans for Spring concerning to the license.
Will Spring always be Open Source or do you plan to distribute it under a different licensing model?

Thanks,
Chris

[Keith Donald]

Apache 2.0 is and will continue to be our license.

[jnum]

This comment on class DefaultPropertiesPersister is causing some grey hair for us:

* <p>Due to the fact that java.util.Properties' own load and store
 * methods are implemented in a completely unextensible fashion,
 * the persistence code had to be copied and pasted into this class,
 * allowing to specify any Reader or Writer.
 *
 * <p>All persistence code in this class is subject to the license
 * of the original java.util.Properties file. The unextensible code
 * there should be permission enough to copy and paste it here.

Is it really ok to copy Suns code just because it written badly?

[Rod Johnson]

DefaultPropertiesPersister has been reimplemented (released in Spring 1.1.4) so that it now takes no code from the Java libraries.