On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 02:04:47PM -0500, Aaron M. Renn wrote:
>
> You should ping Paul Fisher. All paperwork and account creation should
> be up to date. However, see below.
He already replied. The papers have arrived.
> Apache is under the BSD license. It is compatible with the LGPL.
> Unfortunately, the Apache folks have included the obnoxious BSD
> advertising clause. IMO, this is an annoyance, but is not a major
> obstacle to using their code. Hopefully Sun will not included the
> advertising clause, but I suspect they probably will.
Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the only clause that is incompatible
with the (L)GPL but Paul Fisher advised to consult Richard Stallman for
the definitive answer. I will email him and ask for his advise.
> It might make more sense for your javax.servlet implementation to live
> with the Jakarta project rather than Classpath. It appears that it
> would fit nicely there. What do they think of using your code as the
> javax.servlet implementation?
The Jakarta people hope that they can work it out to a good conclusion
with Sun and they have been hostile in the past about making a implementation
of the javax.servlet classes or using another implementation of the
library. So we will just have to wait what Sun decides about the javax.servlet
classes. If Sun releases them as free software I would be happy to merge
them and otherwise we could offer them for inclusion. The Kaffe
people were also interested to include the libraries with Kaffe, but they
didn't seem to care exactly where the sources would be located as long as
they could be accesed by anonymous CVS. I personally do not mind so much
where the sources are since they are LGPLed and I would be happy to keep
maintaining them.
Cheers,
Mark
