Le jeudi 03 mars 2005 Ã 12:47 +1000, Stephen Crawley a Ãcrit : Sorry for the lag in responding. I lost a month's worth of mail, and this was in the middle of it. I had to recover this from GNU's ticket system.
> b) It is not clear (to me) that this does not violate the OMG's > copyright. Certainly, it is doing something that they were > (historically) trying to prevent. According to the good folks at [EMAIL PROTECTED]: *> Our current plan is to just reimplement all the classes for GNU *> Classpath based on the public specification published by OMG *> (ftp://ftp.omg.org/pub/docs/ptc/00-01-08.pdf) *... *> The zip file, is the zip file containing the source above. And often *the *> actual classes and interfaces we need to implement are not that much *> bigger than the examples given in the specification. This means that *our *> implementation will look very similar to the example code in the *> specification (and probably to the "official implementation" *contained *> in the zip file). * *This sounds like a standard case of scenes a faire: * *'Likewise, when similar features of a work are âas a practical matter *indispensable, or at least standard, in the treatment of a given idea, *they are treated like ideas and are therefore not protected by *copyright.' (Apple v. Microsoft) * *So, yes, you can do this. > c) I'm not sure that a Classpath-based VM can claim CORBA compliance if > it uses a version of the org.omg classes that come from a different > source. It might mean that (for example) all Linux distros that include > a Classpath-based Java implementation needs to get the CORBA compliance > testing done themselves if they want a "CORBA-x.y" compliant badge. Certainly it can't. But we can't claim Java compliance either. =) The best I suspect that we could do is say 'Implements OMG Spec 00-01-08 (OMG IDL To Java Language Mapping)', and even that I would want to run past FSF legal. But that's a simple statement of truth at least. Tks, Jeff Bailey _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
