Re: Classpath and org.omg.*

2003-10-23 Thread Chris Gray
On Thursday 23 October 2003 20:26, Stuart Ballard wrote: I think I see a fairly simple way that OMG could preserve the integrity of the CORBA standard while remaining Free Software. In much the same way as some Free licenses allow free modification but require that anyone making such

Re: Classpath and org.omg.*

2003-10-23 Thread Stuart Ballard
Chris Gray wrote: But it would of course be incompatible with the GPL ... Probably, but definitely compatible with Classpath's modified version of the GPL. There would be problems for GPL software that wished to *use* the org.omg classes, but not for the integration of the classes into

Re: Classpath and org.omg.*

2003-10-23 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 22:57, Stuart Ballard wrote: Chris Gray wrote: But it would of course be incompatible with the GPL ... Probably, but definitely compatible with Classpath's modified version of the GPL. There would be problems for GPL software that wished to *use* the org.omg

Re: Classpath and org.omg.*

2003-10-23 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 20:26, Stuart Ballard wrote: I think I see a fairly simple way that OMG could preserve the integrity of the CORBA standard while remaining Free Software. In much the same way as some Free licenses allow free modification but require that anyone making such

Re: Classpath and org.omg.*

2003-10-23 Thread Bryce McKinlay
On Oct 24, 2003, at 10:55 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: Hi, On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 20:26, Stuart Ballard wrote: I think I see a fairly simple way that OMG could preserve the integrity of the CORBA standard while remaining Free Software. In much the same way as some Free licenses allow free

Re: Classpath and org.omg.*

2003-10-23 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 13:45, Bryce McKinlay wrote: How does the org.omg spec differ from the java.* spec which is also non-modifiable according to its license? I haven't studied specs or books on org.omg yet, so I cannot tell you. I was talking about software distributed under the

Classpath and org.omg.*

2003-10-22 Thread Stephen Crawley
Folks, If all we have to do to keep GNU / FSF happy for now is to remove the link to the OMG from the website, lets just do it. I hardly think this is a major issue. In the long term though, there is a bigger problem looming. At some point, Classpath needs to support the org.omg.* classes.