On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 13:18, Stuart Ballard wrote: > > Jim Pick wrote: > > > > Maybe Classpath might even become the default class library for Kaffe, > > if that's what people want to use. But I don't see any good reason to > > completely scrap Kaffe's current class libs either. > > But you don't see any hope of getting Kaffe's libraries relicensed under > GPL+Exception so that code from them can be merged into Classpath? > > Of course, that's not your decision, and I assume there are multiple > copyright holders involved. But if Transvirtual is still unwilling to > make the exception, then it doesn't matter what any other potential > copyright holders might or might not think anyway... > > I don't seriously expect a positive answer to t his :) But you can't deny > it would be nice...
I doubt that's going to happen, as I said before. Transvirtual licenses the same libraries for proprietary use, so it's pretty unlikely that they'll be released under a looser license than the GPL (especially the AWT). It's probably a moot point at this time anyways, as I think Classpath is pretty complete (although I haven't ever really looked at it closely). The damage (if you can call it that) has already been done, and now the free software community has 2 class library implementations which basically do the same thing. It's duplication, but I guess it's better to have two implementations rather than zero implementations. :-) I'd love to see both Classpath and Kaffe's class libraries made to be interoperable, compatible and switchable. Cheers, - Jim
