diff --git a/java/external/LICENSE.sax.txt b/java/external/LICENSE.sax.txt
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+xml-commons/java/external/LICENSE.sax.txt $Id$
+
+
+This license came from: http://www.megginson.com/SAX/copying.html
+  However please note future versions of SAX may be covered 
+  under http://saxproject.org/?selected=pd
+
+
+This page is now out of date -- see the new SAX site at 
+http://www.saxproject.org/ for more up-to-date
+releases and other information. Please change your bookmarks.
+
+
+SAX2 is Free!
+
+I hereby abandon any property rights to SAX 2.0 (the Simple API for
+XML), and release all of the SAX 2.0 source code, compiled code, and
+documentation contained in this distribution into the Public Domain.
+SAX comes with NO WARRANTY or guarantee of fitness for any
+purpose.
+
+David Megginson, david@megginson.com
+2000-05-05
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diff --git a/java/external/README.sax.txt b/java/external/README.sax.txt
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+xml-commons/java/external/README.sax.txt $Id$
+
+
+HEAR YE, HEAR YE!
+
+
+All of the .java software and associated documentation about 
+SAX in this repository are distributed freely in the 
+public domain.
+
+
+LICENSE.sax.txt covers all software and documentation from the 
+megginson.com including the following in the xml-commons project:
+
+    xml-commons/java/external/src/org/xml/sax
+      and all subdirectories
+    xml-commons/java/external/xdocs/sax
+      and all subdirectories
+
+
+The actual SAX classes in xml-commons came from: 
+    http://www.megginson.com/Software/index.html
+	The original versions are tagged 'SAX-2_0-r2-prerelease'
+