We're not allowed to have LGPL dependencies per the Apache board. They have a legal concern with the LGPL section 6 and the FSF is unwilling to clarify the issue although I've personally written them in the past they apparently are not filled with a spirit of free sharing with regards to information about the meaning of their licenses. While they are not obligated to respond it would have certainly have been a courteous thing to do. Thus far I have attempted to write
Their lawyer : Eben Moglen Their RMS : Richard Stallman Their gnumail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] None have yielded a response. Thus I regard them as unfriendly at the least. While I do not agree with the conservative interpretation of the LGPL by the ASF, I totally agree that legal ambiguity is a bad thing and understand why they wish to avoid this. Anyone who can lend assistance in getting into contact with them with regards to clarifying the LGPL license's terms as they apply to java (in particular jars and imports) such that we can LGPL libraries, I'd be much appreciative and would be in your debt. Thanks, -Andy On 7/11/03 9:31 AM, "epugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > For a couple months now, I have periodically had to post a patch adding more > unicode mappings for the HSSFCellUtil contrib class: > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta-poi/src/contrib/src/org/apache/poi/hss > f/usermodel/contrib/HSSFCellUtil.java?rev=1.6&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs- > markup. > > If you look at the bottom, there is a static population of unicodeMappings. > Now, since I am lazy, I didn't want to type them all in myself. Well, I > finally found a library called HTMLParser > (http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net/) that has a Translate class that does > the unicode translation I need: > http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/htmlparser/htmlparser/src/org > /htmlparser/util/Translate.java?rev=1.28&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-marku > p > > Would it be better to post a patch file that includes this jar, even though > it would mean another dependency, or should I just lift the code for this > class? I need to add another 10 unicode mappings, and really would like a > better solution! > > Sincerely, > Eric Pugh > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Andrew C. Oliver http://www.superlinksoftware.com/poi.jsp Custom enhancements and Commercial Implementation for Jakarta POI http://jakarta.apache.org/poi For Java and Excel, Got POI? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
