On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 15:09 +0100, Michael Koch wrote: > > > MX4J uses the Apache Software License, which, IIRC, is > > incompatible with the Classpath license. > > No its not incompatible with the Classpath license, its incompatible > with pure GPL.
Which is indeed a problem because that means we cannot include these together with GNU Classpath (as external packages) or recommend them to people to build larger works on (since those would then also be GPL incompatible). The good news is that the FSF and the AFS are finally talking again about the pratical problems around combining (L)GPL and ASL covered code. This comes from the cooperation between the Kaffe and Gump hackers (http://brutus.apache.org/gump/kaffe/). All hackers involved are really upbeat about going forward and solving some key issues. At the same time we all realize that there are some fundamental philosophical and interpretation differences and customs between the groups. Everyone is well aware that the last time the ASL/GPL issue came up some miscommunication took place and mistakes were made. We really want to prevent that this time around. It takes time to build up trust. So don't expect results immediately. One of the issues on the agenda is comming up with some standard boiler plate texts for projects covered under the (L)GPL or ASL that want to explicitly make their projects compatible so it can be combined into a larger worked covered under either of these licenses. Hopefully this can be done by the end of the month so we can propose such a text to projects like MX4J or other projects that we would like to combine with GNU Classpath or other standard GPL compatible libraries. Cheers, Mark
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