Re: ASF has been shipping GPL exception stuff for years and still is ;)

2005-12-05 Thread Rodrigo Kumpera
I wonder if the classpath vm interface classes where public domain that issue would be solved. After all, there isn't much value, I believe, on these classes only. On 12/5/05, Davanum Srinivas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, sublicensing. I believe the terms are not clear on how third parties

Re: ASF has been shipping GPL exception stuff for years and still is ;)

2005-12-05 Thread Leo Simons
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 06:53:08PM -0800, Dalibor Topic wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:52:32PM -0600, Archie Cobbs wrote: Conclusion being: if it's the merely legality that concerns ASF, then they should already be happy and this whole problem and discussion can go away (wouldn't that be

Re: Back on your hands!

2005-12-05 Thread Leo Simons
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:49:24AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: So... can we consider this topic done (with the exception of dalibar getting the last word in response to my last post), at least from the POV of trying to make progress on it here on the Harmony list, and move it over

Some progress

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Wielaard
After all that legal talk it is probably a good idea to point out some of the progress we have made with the various groups. The following is clearly a first draft so input is very welcome. I hope we can discuss this more and refine it during our Fosdem meeting in Brussels. Escaping the Java Trap

Where do we put it? (Was Re: [jchevm] Porting JCHEVM to OSX/PPC)

2005-12-05 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Sorry to interrupt with a technical issue... On Nov 29, 2005, at 6:48 PM, David Tanzer wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 16:34 -0600, Archie Cobbs wrote: [...] I stripped out lots of ELF specific stuff, so my version could be interesting for a port to windows too. I just don't want to commit it

Re: [Licensing/Community] Fresh start

2005-12-05 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Mark, Personally, i'd like to see progress on the VM Interface ASAP, that would go a long way to removing the mistrust. That would enable harmony VM to use unmodified classpath stuff as-is for development purposes and can act as a firewall till the licenses get sorted out. See snippet from Leo's

Re: ASF has been shipping GPL exception stuff for years and still is ;)

2005-12-05 Thread netsql
Well maybe for you ethics. .V Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: The fact that there's GPL-ed code in there is *utterly irrelevant*...

Re: Where do we put it? (Was Re: [jchevm] Porting JCHEVM to OSX/PPC)

2005-12-05 Thread Archie Cobbs
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I stripped out lots of ELF specific stuff, so my version could be interesting for a port to windows too. I just don't want to commit it to trunk yet because it's completely untested. You could create a branch to play with in Subversion. If you do, I recommend also

Re: [jira] Commented: (HARMONY-10) configure for [BootJVM]

2005-12-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Let us leave this open because I am very interested to incorporate the capabilities of 'autoconf' into this project. When I get the time to [finally] polish off the errata items for the base JVM, this will be one of the first things to consider. Dan Lydick -Original Message- From: Geir

Re: ASF has been shipping GPL exception stuff for years and still is ;)

2005-12-05 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Hi Vic, As usual, you ignore what is written in order to present material that is generally deemed incorrect or irrational. Note that what I wrote was : When you get the httpd binary, you just use it. You run it. The fact that there's GPL-ed code in there is *utterly irrelevant*

Re: Where do we put it? (Was Re: [jchevm] Porting JCHEVM to OSX/PPC)

2005-12-05 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On Dec 5, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Archie Cobbs wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I stripped out lots of ELF specific stuff, so my version could be interesting for a port to windows too. I just don't want to commit it to trunk yet because it's completely untested. You could create a branch to

Re: ASF has been shipping GPL exception stuff for years and still is ;)

2005-12-05 Thread Anthony Green
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 00:13 -0500, Davanum Srinivas wrote: But even then, there is no guarantee that people will want to do it because they can't make a closed fork if they want to for whatever reason. (Which ASL allows and if people wanted to do that, they would already be participating in

Re: [Licensing/Community] Fresh start

2005-12-05 Thread Tim Ellison
Davanum Srinivas wrote: Mark, Personally, i'd like to see progress on the VM Interface ASAP, that would go a long way to removing the mistrust. That would enable harmony VM to use unmodified classpath stuff as-is for development purposes and can act as a firewall till the licenses get

Re: Where do we put it? (Was Re: [jchevm] Porting JCHEVM to OSX/PPC)

2005-12-05 Thread Archie Cobbs
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On Dec 5, 2005, at 10:17 AM, Archie Cobbs wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I stripped out lots of ELF specific stuff, so my version could be interesting for a port to windows too. I just don't want to commit it to trunk yet because it's completely untested.

Re: ASF has been shipping GPL exception stuff for years and still is ;)

2005-12-05 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Anthony, for example, there is work done already on XSLTC (http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/xsltc_usage.html) in Xalan. I'd like to be able to make *my* JRE distribution use this by default. To save space, i *don't* want to use the gnu xml stuff. why should i have to distribute that? see my point?

Re: [Licensing/Community] Fresh start

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Davanum, On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 09:45 -0500, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Personally, i'd like to see progress on the VM Interface ASAP, that would go a long way to removing the mistrust. That would enable harmony VM to use unmodified classpath stuff as-is for development purposes and can act as

Re: ASF has been shipping GPL exception stuff for years and still is ;)

2005-12-05 Thread Anthony Green
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 11:53 -0500, Davanum Srinivas wrote: Anthony, for example, there is work done already on XSLTC (http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/xsltc_usage.html) in Xalan. I'd like to be able to make *my* JRE distribution use this by default. To save space, i *don't* want to use the gnu

Re: [Licensing/Community] Fresh start

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Tim, On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 16:12 +, Tim Ellison wrote: Mark: is there some concensus forming on componentization of the Classpath code that would allow defining whole functional units like this? The OSGi bundles model seems to tick a number of the boxes as a standardized method for

Testsuite (Was: Where to place the core classlib code?)

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:38 +, Tim Ellison wrote: Unless/until someone shows up with a comprehensive test suite we have to start by writing tests for everything that gets patched. Take a look at http://www.sourceware.org/mauve/ Mauve is a collaboration of several companies and

Re: Testsuite (Was: Where to place the core classlib code?)

2005-12-05 Thread Anthony Green
On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 20:34 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:38 +, Tim Ellison wrote: Unless/until someone shows up with a comprehensive test suite we have to start by writing tests for everything that gets patched. Take a look at http://www.sourceware.org/mauve/

Re: ASF has been shipping GPL exception stuff for years and still is ;)

2005-12-05 Thread Dalibor Topic
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 05:59:53AM -0800, Leo Simons wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 06:53:08PM -0800, Dalibor Topic wrote: On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 01:52:32PM -0600, Archie Cobbs wrote: Conclusion being: if it's the merely legality that concerns ASF, then they should already be happy and

Re: Back on your hands! (Was Re: ASF has been shipping GPL exception stuff for years and still is ;))

2005-12-05 Thread Dalibor Topic
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:49:24AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Ok. So there's this joke I like... A guy dies and goes to hell. A daemon ;) meets him at the door, and tells him that he gets to choose his eternal punishment. They go to a large room where people are hanging by their

Re: ASF has been shipping GPL exception stuff for years and still is ;)

2005-12-05 Thread Dalibor Topic
On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:41:10AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On Dec 4, 2005, at 11:59 PM, Dalibor Topic wrote: [SNIP] On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 02:13:30PM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: On Dec 4, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Anthony Green wrote: Whether or not you make a distinction