Mark Wielaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dear Paul, > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 05:12:28PM -0800, Paul Fisher wrote: > > > > Sorry for not going into great detail, but I have a plane to catch > > (literally). I'll comment more when I have some free time. > > Please do when you have time. > > I don't have a very good feeling about this and I hope you can take that > bad feeling away. I don't mind if this is actually a good decission for > the GNU project as a whole, but in that case I really have to see more > explanation of why this is a good move.
The decision was made by Richard Stallman. Previous to that I tried to press for changing the license to be more like the rest of GNU Classpath. This is what I've wanted and by popular vote is also what many of the contributors wanted, but that view did not prevail. Apparently things have settled a bit since I made that note concerning the AWT and we can now update the web pages again. Legally speaking, the number of contributors to our AWT in Classpath is still quite low. Aaron did most of the work with myself and another contributing bits and pieces (ignoring the peers). We have the option of licensing and using our code in any way we'd like as long as we supply the FSF with 30 days notice in writing (This is my reading of the contributor agreement). If someone would like to use my code under the GPL + exception, then I am more than willing to supply the FSF with a writing to that affect which should make it legal. > I am very pessimistic about targeting our GPLed library against a > free beer library from Sun. I don't think this will create more Free > Software or cooperation between different free software projects at > the moment. The GPL'd library will still support research interests but it will probably not be of interest to certain types of users. For one, can you execute a proprietary Java GUI application using a GPL'd AWT? Two, I would like to know how this plays with Red Hat's embedded customers of GCJ for instance? Is it the same there, that customers buy a more appropriate license based on something similar to the individual contributor agreement with the FSF? Brian -- Brian Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
