Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Philipp, (please, respect the mail-followup-to field ;-) even if doogie and dalibor don't, they are some kind of rebel! ;-) Philipp Meier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Arnaud Vandyck schrieb: >> Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>These

Re: java in main

2004-03-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Adam Heath wrote: > components/content/lib/velocity-dep-1.3.jar This is part of a subproject of velocity, velocity-tools. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kalle Kivimaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If the things continue at this pace, we may consider doing kaffe-cvs >> releases more regularly for interested people to play with. > > I for one would love that.

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Badran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 10 Mar 2004 16:04, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: >> > components/service/lib/jaxrpc.jar >> >> I think I already see this somewhere ;-)... (but where?) > > Isnt this a library from j2ee? Done! http://java

Re: java in main for jboss/ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I packaged an old version of jboss (3.0.2 or something)[1] and had > intentions of doing 3.1+. I found it quite a bit of work to do the > packaging alone and deal with all the dependencies embedded within th

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the things continue at this pace, we may consider doing kaffe-cvs > releases more regularly for interested people to play with. I for one would love that. -- * Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology (T.P) * * PGP

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > >> Would be cool to have JBoss in Debian ;-) > > > > Don't you mean ofbiz(altho, jboss would be nice too, but jboss > > upstream isn't friendly). > > >From the

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > >> Would be cool to have JBoss in Debian ;-) > > Don't you mean ofbiz(altho, jboss would be nice too, but jboss > upstream isn't friendly). >From the website, it seems jboss is used by ofbiz! ;-)... But I don't

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
elijah wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> > Would be cool to have JBoss in Debian ;-) >> >> As soon as Kaffe runs JBoss (even rudimentally) I will package JBoss >> for Debian, unless somebody else beats me to it (I don't see a need >> to package it before that as the installation to /usr/local

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Arnaud, * Arnaud Vandyck wrote: >Would be cool to have JBoss in Debian ;-) NTW: JPackage has packaged JBoss, so why not have a look there :) Its kind of fun, as well, as it is interesting, what kind of features other packages have. So far I've found 4 different eclipse packages: JPackage, g

Re: java in main

2004-03-10 Thread Adam Heath
I've reduced the list, to those that implement java extensions. jdbc2_0-stdext and jta appear to be in kaffe in some form or another. > components/minerva/lib/jdbc2_0-stdext.jar javax.sql.* > components/minerva/lib/jta_1.0.1.jar javax.transaction.* > components/minerva/lib/ots-jts_1.0.jar o

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Dalibor Topic wrote: > I don't know about the rest from the top of my head. I'm checking in > some RMI improvements now, and then we'll give JBoss a beating. The > developement in the last few days has been quite intensive wrt to > getting XScale, PowerPC-no-fpu, and MIPS to r

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Dalibor Topic
Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: These are the jars I need to have packaged still. Slightly smaller list, as I found some replacements in debian already. Re-ordered: 1° Maybe already in Debian: components/content/lib/iText.jar libitext-java - Java Library to gener

Re: java in main for jboss/ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Adam Heath
On 10 Mar 2004, Joe Phillips wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:39, elijah wright wrote: > > > > i'm pretty sure someone already built jboss packages - i seem to have an > > apt-get source for them already, at least > > I packaged an old version of jboss (3.0.2 or something)[1] and had > intent

Re: java in main for jboss/ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Joe Phillips
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:39, elijah wright wrote: > > i'm pretty sure someone already built jboss packages - i seem to have an > apt-get source for them already, at least I packaged an old version of jboss (3.0.2 or something)[1] and had intentions of doing 3.1+. I found it quite a bit of wo

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, elijah wright wrote: > > i'm pretty sure someone already built jboss packages - i seem to have an > apt-get source for them already, at least > > elijah That was me, but was based on 2.4. 3.0 changed completely around, and I never got around to it. Plus, we have stopped

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread elijah wright
i'm pretty sure someone already built jboss packages - i seem to have an apt-get source for them already, at least elijah > > Would be cool to have JBoss in Debian ;-) > > As soon as Kaffe runs JBoss (even rudimentally) I will package JBoss for > Debian, unless somebody else beats me to it

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > These are the jars I need to have packaged still. > > Slightly smaller list, as I found some replacements in debian already. > > Re-ordered: > > 1° Maybe already in Debian: > > > components/content/lib/iText.

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Tom Badran
On Wednesday 10 Mar 2004 16:04, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > components/service/lib/jaxrpc.jar > > I think I already see this somewhere ;-)... (but where?) Isnt this a library from j2ee? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Would be cool to have JBoss in Debian ;-) As soon as Kaffe runs JBoss (even rudimentally) I will package JBoss for Debian, unless somebody else beats me to it (I don't see a need to package it before that as the installation to /usr/local or /var/jboss

Re: java in main for ofbiz

2004-03-10 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > These are the jars I need to have packaged still. > Slightly smaller list, as I found some replacements in debian already. Re-ordered: 1° Maybe already in Debian: > components/content/lib/iText.jar libitext-java - Java Library to generate PDF on the Fly

Re: java in main

2004-03-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Adam Heath wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > > > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > So, I sent a mail recently to this list, saying I got ofbiz(www.ofbiz.org) to > > > run on kaffe. This is great news for kaffe. > > > > > > However, I just real

Re: java in main

2004-03-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > So, I sent a mail recently to this list, saying I got ofbiz(www.ofbiz.org) to > > run on kaffe. This is great news for kaffe. > > > > However, I just realized something very poor. Kaffe is in main. Since >

Re: java in main

2004-03-09 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, I sent a mail recently to this list, saying I got ofbiz(www.ofbiz.org) to > run on kaffe. This is great news for kaffe. > > However, I just realized something very poor. Kaffe is in main. Since > ofbiz(a

java in main

2004-03-09 Thread Adam Heath
So, I sent a mail recently to this list, saying I got ofbiz(www.ofbiz.org) to run on kaffe. This is great news for kaffe. However, I just realized something very poor. Kaffe is in main. Since ofbiz(and all the external jars in it's cvs checkout) run on kaffe, it should be able to go into main a

Re: Kaffe's GPL and GPL incompatible Java software [Was: Undistributable java in main]

2003-11-04 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Andrew, Andrew Suffield wrote: I can live with this view (even though an argument could be made about the fact that many VMs (I do not know specifically about Kaffe) internally use bytecodes from the class library to handle internal data structures [think of a just-in-time compiler written in J

Re: Kaffe's GPL and GPL incompatible Java software [Was: Undistributable java in main]

2003-11-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
[This is no longer particularly important] On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:37:49AM -0500, Etienne Gagnon wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > >Kaffe is essentially a filter that takes java > >bytecode as input and emits program code on the fly (this is > >technically incomplete, but effectively equivalent

Re: Kaffe's GPL and GPL incompatible Java software [Was: Undistributable java in main]

2003-11-03 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Andrew Suffield wrote: Kaffe is essentially a filter that takes java bytecode as input and emits program code on the fly (this is technically incomplete, but effectively equivalent for the sake of this argument). The input to a filter cannot be a derivative work of it; we don't *care* about the sta

Re: Kaffe's GPL and GPL incompatible Java software [Was: Undistributable java in main]

2003-11-03 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 11:40:59AM -0500, Etienne Gagnon wrote: > The opinion of debian-legal would be highly appreciated by all involved in > this > long running thread of discussion about the implications of: > > 1- Kaffe being licensed under the GNU GPL. > 2- Kaffe's class library being licens

Re: Kaffe's GPL and GPL incompatible Java software [Was: Undistributable java in main]

2003-11-02 Thread Dalibor Topic
Etienne Gagnon wrote: Dalibor Topic wrote: It would have been nice if you had made the arguments of each side clear, before attacking my position. The discussion has not taken place on debian-legal, but on debian-java. I appreciate the way Gadek presented both sides of the previuos argument.

Re: Kaffe's GPL and GPL incompatible Java software [Was: Undistributable java in main]

2003-11-02 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Dalibor Topic wrote: It would have been nice if you had made the arguments of each side clear, before attacking my position. The discussion has not taken place on debian-legal, but on debian-java. I appreciate the way Gadek presented both sides of the previuos argument. You have a good point, th

Re: Kaffe's GPL and GPL incompatible Java software [Was: Undistributable java in main]

2003-11-02 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 07:51:37PM +0100, Dalibor Topic wrote: > My first issue is with the subject line: Kaffe uses plain GPL, not some > special 'Kaffe's GPL'. It should be FSF's GPL, if you'd want to > attribute it someone special. I read "Kaffe's (GPL and GPL incompatible Java software)", no

Re: Kaffe's GPL and GPL incompatible Java software [Was: Undistributable java in main]

2003-11-02 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Etienne, let's have some non-lawyerish philosophical licensing discussion fun again ;) My first issue is with the subject line: Kaffe uses plain GPL, not some special 'Kaffe's GPL'. It should be FSF's GPL, if you'd want to attribute it someone special. Etienne Gagnon wrote: Hi Debian-legal

Kaffe's GPL and GPL incompatible Java software [Was: Undistributable java in main]

2003-11-02 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Debian-legal, Egon and Dalibor, The opinion of debian-legal would be highly appreciated by all involved in this long running thread of discussion about the implications of: 1- Kaffe being licensed under the GNU GPL. 2- Kaffe's class library being licensed under the GNU GPL. 3- Differeing interp

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-02 Thread Dalibor Topic
E.L. Willighagen (Egon) wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2003 20:08, Etienne Gagnon wrote: E.L. Willighagen (Egon) wrote: The big question seems to come done to: "What part of Java is library and what part is language?" It seems to me that at least the syntax *and* java.lang *is* the language...

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-02 Thread E.L. Willighagen (Egon)
On Saturday 01 November 2003 20:08, Etienne Gagnon wrote: > E.L. Willighagen (Egon) wrote: > > The big question seems to come done to: > > > > "What part of Java is library and what part is language?" > > > > It seems to me that at least the syntax *and* java.lang *is* the > > language... Thus as l

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Dalibor Topic
Salut Etienne, Etienne Gagnon wrote: Dalibor Topic wrote: GPL says: Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. ... ... As running is clearly not covered under GPL, your argument doesn't work. Modification *IS* cove

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Etienne Gagnon
E.L. Willighagen (Egon) wrote: The big question seems to come done to: "What part of Java is library and what part is language?" It seems to me that at least the syntax *and* java.lang *is* the language... Thus as long as you don't use anything else then java.lang classes, you can use kaffe to r

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread E.L. Willighagen (Egon)
On Saturday 01 November 2003 18:41, Etienne Gagnon wrote: > Dalibor Topic wrote: > > GPL says: > > Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not > > covered by this License; they are outside its scope. ... > > > As running is clearly not covered under GPL, your argument doesn

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Dalibor Topic wrote: GPL says: Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. ... ... As running is clearly not covered under GPL, your argument doesn't work. Modification *IS* covered by the GPL. (FYI, it's not my argumen

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Etienne, Etienne Gagnon wrote: Hi Arnaud, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Anyway, we're switching kaffe's class library over to GNU Classpath, which is GPL + linking exception, and that should make the people who support FSFs interpretation happy, too, as GNU Classpath explicitely allows linking to

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Arnaud, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Anyway, we're switching kaffe's class library over to GNU Classpath, which is GPL + linking exception, and that should make the people who support FSFs interpretation happy, too, as GNU Classpath explicitely allows linking to it. This won't necessarily change an

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:32:08 +0100 Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, we're switching kaffe's class library over to GNU Classpath, > which is GPL + linking exception, and that should make the people who > support FSFs interpretation happy, too, as GNU Classpath explicitely > all

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-10-30 Thread Brian Ristuccia
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 10:51:23AM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: > > PS: I hope d-l people won't mind us Cc:ing them from now on. We surely > don't want to make it another IANAL-discussion which brigns nothing > so we need some help. Please Cc:d-l when it makes sense. > Last I checked, the

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-10-30 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
W liście z czw, 30-10-2003, godz. 05:32, Dalibor Topic pisze: > Anyway, we're switching kaffe's class library over to GNU Classpath, > which is GPL + linking exception, and that should make the people who > support FSFs interpretation happy, too, as GNU Classpath explicitely > allows linking to

Undistributable java in main (to d-l, please state your opinion)

2003-10-30 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
Hi! Below is the mail that I sent yesterday to debian-java NOT putting Cc: to d-legal as I thought the issue was really clear to me. After some duscussion that began after my email (see http://lists.debian.org/debian-java/2003/debian-java-200310/msg00107.html ) it was requested to bring it on to d

Java and gpl (was: Undistributable java in main)

2003-10-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Dalibor, * Dalibor Topic wrote: >>Anyway: if thats true, that it will kill kaffe in debian, as we could >>not use it with almost any programm, because in one way or another, >>they all include apache licensed libs (-> jakarta project). >Don't agree. ;) Even if this was true, it would be good

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-10-30 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 11:32, Dalibor Topic wrote: > Jan Schulz wrote: > > * Dalibor Topic wrote: > > > >>* figure out how you want to interpret the GPL in this case. The rest > >>follows from that. > >> > >>>Problems not touched: *execution* of GPL-incompatible code using > >>> GPLed libs an

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-10-30 Thread Dalibor Topic
Jan Schulz wrote: Hallo Dalibor, * Dalibor Topic wrote: * figure out how you want to interpret the GPL in this case. The rest follows from that. Problems not touched: *execution* of GPL-incompatible code using GPLed libs and/or GPLed JVMs is beyond the scope of this message. Could you please

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-10-30 Thread Stefan Gybas
Dalibor Topic wrote: B) me (and I guess a few others who are not lawyers, either): As GPL only really talks about derived works, in order to decide if the GPL applies to a work we must try to see if the new work is derived from a GPLd work, or not. FWIW, this is also my POV after reading some of

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-10-30 Thread Jan Schulz
Hallo Dalibor, * Dalibor Topic wrote: >* figure out how you want to interpret the GPL in this case. The rest >follows from that. >>Problems not touched: *execution* of GPL-incompatible code using >> GPLed libs and/or GPLed JVMs is beyond the scope of this message. Could you please take this two

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-10-29 Thread Dalibor Topic
Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote: Hi all! Hi Grzegorz, Summary: Usage of GPLed libs to compile GPL-incompatible code makes the result *undistributable*. [0] Affected java packages: Every package that contains GPL-incompatible software which was *compiled* using GPLed libs. Examples: current Ant p

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-10-29 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
"Grzegorz B. Prokopski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Summary: Usage of GPLed libs to compile GPL-incompatible code makes > the result *undistributable*. [0] Does it? AFAIK using gcc (GPL licensed) to compile _any_ software does not make that software GPL. So, why would kaffe be a special case?

Undistributable java in main

2003-10-29 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
Hi all! Summary: Usage of GPLed libs to compile GPL-incompatible code makes the result *undistributable*. [0] Affected java packages: Every package that contains GPL-incompatible software which was *compiled* using GPLed libs. Examples: current Ant package apparently(!) has been compiled w/