I have joined the team only recently and did not participate in discussions,
related to the Classpath license. Of course, it was possible to choose GPL
or LGPL. At some step, a decission was accepted to use the existing license.
I hope, there were serious reasons for that. Also, I hope, there were some
serious reasons to raise the requirement of transferring the rights to the
Free Software Foundation.
JackORB exists for a comparatively long time, but during this time, it has
never been contributed to Classpath. The JackORB licence has never been
changed into Classpath license, and the copyright has never been transferred
to FSF. As a result, I have not had a possibility to reuse the JackORB code
and reimplemented my own.
This is true not just for the public classes in omg.org.CORBA and related,
but also for the WORKING CORE CLASSES in gnu.CORBA package. These classes
are now - sorry - more or less complete for the version 1.2. The code is of
course not mature, but it is covered by multiple tests from the former CORBA
open source testing package, cost.omg.org. Classpath CORBA is fully
interoperable with Suns implementation 1.2. And, as a side effect of the
required compatibility, you can use the Sun 1.3 IDL compiler before somebody
will write or adapth a Free one. Under such circumstances, I see no reason
of using any part of JackORB under its present license a least for the 1.2
and 1.3 releases.
Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania.
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