On Aug 9, 2005, at 12:21 PM, Meskauskas Audrius wrote:
In principle the license and goals are stated on our website:
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html
In theory there should be no persuading needed since the Apache
hackers
have already said that they would like to use GNU Classpath as core
library for the Harmony initiative and that the license is in
principle
not a problem for adoption.
The license currently is a problem. However, we're trying to not let
that stop us.
The main thing holding things back is that
you need more then just the core class libraries for building a full
free j2se replacement. See Apache incubator for details about
the Harmony project.
I'm familiar with it :)
The GNU Classpath licensing exception is not a nonsense; due this
single sentence in the header I have got to write
currently 851 CORBA class from scratch in spite of the existence of
the
LGPL-licensed JackORB and Jonathan, as the licensing differences
are too dramatic.
This is because exception eliminates the pressure to release the
closely
interacting code under GPL or LGPL, opening way for much more
solutions and
making the whole spirit of the license maybe even closer to Apache
than
to original GPL.
If you think that accepting Classpath it is a very responsible
decission, for you, I would like you to suggest to contact Cliff
Schmidt at apache.org.
Cliff has spoken at lenght about legal/license issues with FSF
legal people and knows what the intentions and goals are of our
licenses.
Thx - we'll certainly be watching carefully to see how those
discussions develop.
geir
With respect
Audrius Meskauskas.
Jeff Genender wrote:
Meskauskas,
Thanks for offering this up. But I *think*, and I can easily be
corrected, the licensing is the issue. For our initial
implementation, I believe we must have software that is compatible
with the Apache license and IIUC, GNU classpath is GPL.
Jeff
Meskauskas Audrius wrote:
Jacek>I wonder what options do we have to use as a CORBA
implementation in
Jacek>Geronimo (as a ASF project). I'm not familiar with the
nuances of
Jacek>miscellaneous licenses, but unless I'm mistaken we don't
have too much
Jacek>choices - Sun's ORB or OpenORB, right? Again, unless I'm
mistaken if I
Jacek>were to be asked I'd say we ain't too happy with both, but
couldn't say
Jacek>why :( Wiki is silent on this, too.
Jacek>Yes, I'm lost and asking for a help - could anyone answer
where we are
Jacek>with the CORBA stuff?
A very serious work is already done writing GNU Classpath CORBA
implementation.
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