Re: Java development on debian ppc

2000-07-06 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:52:09AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > First, it is not clear whether the license has any legal meaning at all. > It is publicly available documentation, and I don't know how they > could legally restrict someone from using it to build a clean-room > implementation. I.e. ar

Re: Java development on debian ppc

2000-07-06 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 09:52:09AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > First, it is not clear whether the license has any legal meaning at all. > It is publicly available documentation, and I don't know how they > could legally restrict someone from using it to build a clean-room > implementation. I.e. a

Re: Java development on debian ppc

2000-07-06 Thread Per Bothner
"Ean R . Schuessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 11:00:18PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > > The license for the documentation is: > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/relnotes/SMICopyright.html > > Now that license does have some problems, but that is another discu

Re: Java development on debian ppc

2000-07-06 Thread Per Bothner
"Ean R . Schuessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 11:00:18PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > > The license for the documentation is: > > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/relnotes/SMICopyright.html > > Now that license does have some problems, but that is another disc

Re: The long way to a free Tomcat package

2000-07-06 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 01:27:04PM +0200, Stefan Gybas wrote: > Does anyone know of free implementations of the sun.tools.javac/javadoc > classes or a free javadoc utility in C/C++ (like jikes)? Worst comes to worst, it doesn't seem like much of a task to write an antlr grammer to parse javadocish

Re: Java development on debian ppc

2000-07-06 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 11:00:18PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > The license for the documentation is: > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/relnotes/SMICopyright.html > Now that license does have some problems, but that is another discussion. Well, even that isn't particularly clear. First,

Re: The long way to a free Tomcat package

2000-07-06 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 01:27:04PM +0200, Stefan Gybas wrote: > Does anyone know of free implementations of the sun.tools.javac/javadoc > classes or a free javadoc utility in C/C++ (like jikes)? Worst comes to worst, it doesn't seem like much of a task to write an antlr grammer to parse javadocis

Re: Java development on debian ppc

2000-07-06 Thread Ean R . Schuessler
On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 11:00:18PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote: > The license for the documentation is: > http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/docs/relnotes/SMICopyright.html > Now that license does have some problems, but that is another discussion. Well, even that isn't particularly clear. First,

The long way to a free Tomcat package

2000-07-06 Thread Stefan Gybas
Hi! A lot of people have mailed be because I have posted an ITP for Jakarta/Tomcat and not yet uploaded a package. The reason for this is very simple: Tomcat still contains some non-free components (like Sun's XML parser) and I don't want to put it into non-free. The problem with the XML parser h

The long way to a free Tomcat package

2000-07-06 Thread Stefan Gybas
Hi! A lot of people have mailed be because I have posted an ITP for Jakarta/Tomcat and not yet uploaded a package. The reason for this is very simple: Tomcat still contains some non-free components (like Sun's XML parser) and I don't want to put it into non-free. The problem with the XML parser