Hi, On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 00:20 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Mark Wielaard wrote: > > > I had hoped it would have more emphasized the fact that we would do > > everything in our power to work out the philosophical, legal and > > practical issues when reusing existing code for Harmony. > > Well, I think it does try, but at this point it must be more important how > we go on from here. :-) And your expression is an important part of that > process.
Thanks. I feel it is important that we build bridges between the Apache and GNU communities whenever possible. > > I explicitly said that I would not contribute to any Apache licensed > > project as long as code distributed under the (L)GPL and ASL couldn't > > be mixed into a larger work. > > You are aware that the ASF and FSF are trying to address the issues, and > this effort may help move that along. > > > At least for the GNU Classpath project we have a special exception > > And we're still trying to work out some issues with the FSF there. Unless > there has been a breakthrough recently, we posed very specific use cases, > and have as yet not gotten the necessary response. I didn't realize these were for the GNU Classpath license. Which you can read here: http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html I thought these questions were in connection with the LGPL and how to interpret the explanation posted by the FSF here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-java.html I'll make sure I talk to one of the FSF legal people again to make sure there is progress in these discussions. Some people are setting up a new teleconference between the ASF and FSF to talk about these issues more directly. > > Kaffe is currently in the process of getting access to the TCK: > > http://www.advogato.org/person/robilad/diary.html?start=64 > > The aforementioned issues between GPL and AL aside, I am still trying to see > how the TCK licensing restrictions are compatible with the GPL. I am not a party in these discussions. And as I understood from Dalibor from the Kaffe team the actual terms are still under discussion and confidential at the moment. So I am not sure they can already tell how and if Sun wants to handle this. Cheers, Mark -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/
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