Sorry, the previous email was sent incomplete. I'll try again.. On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:45 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:10 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Simon Kitching wrote: > > > > > legally isn't it impossible for a GPL'd project and an > > > ASF'd project to *have* "synergies"? > > > > Not at all. Individual authors may contribute their own original works, and > > do not give up that right. Furthermore, we can design architectures and > > interface specifications that permit pluggability while isolating client > > code from the implementation (and license) of the pluggable. Think how JDBC > > or JNDI isolate the code from the service provider classes. That doesn't > > solve distribution issues caused by licensing, but it does address a coding > > issue. > > > > Right now we're putting a structure -- process and community -- in place. > > The goal is to work WITH others. As with all other ASF projects, we'll be > > very careful about provenance when accepting code. > But why bother to "work with others"? Why not just join the existing GNU Classpath and Kaffe projects and work within them?
Classpath appears to have no current competitors; it is clearly *the* free java class library implementation. And while the GPL/LGPL may not be the perfect license for every situation it seems perfectly reasonable to me here. Geir indicated in a reply to my earlier posting that there were no specific objections to the Classpath license. Creating a new project whose purpose is to implement the java core libraries surely *must* draw developers away from contributing to GNU Classpath, as well as wasting vasts amount of programmer time (unless major relicensing from GNU Classpath is possible). I still don't understand what benefits might arise from this. The JVM (ie reimplementing what Kaffe does) is a similar situation. What gain is there to create another JVM rather than joining the existing Kaffe project and working within it? Regards, Simon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
