David Gilbert wrote:
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
The only real issue that we had is license incompatibility, but I
thought there was goodwill everywhere to work where we could.
Why don't we be honest and just admit that there is no goodwill between
the projects? It was there, briefly, but now it is gone. There's no
collaboration, there's no cooperation...just two separate projects
implementing the same API. It is the way it is, and the world is moving
on...but let's stop pretending.
I'm not pretending. Many of us have goodwill - this project is a
collection of collaborating individuals. We don't have an "Official
Harmony Position" on GNU Classpath or any other project, just like I
don't think that GNU Classpath has any official position about Harmony.
We can't work together directly because of licensing. We've been
heads down with our own work - we know a lot more now, so maybe we can
find places to start discussion again.
I support what the GNU Classpath people are trying to do, although I
choose not to directly participate there. Sun using the GPL is a boon
for Classpath, so good for them - I'm not sure how they can actually use
the Sun code, as Sun won't be granting copyright assignment to the FSF
as GNU Classpath requires, and it's under a different license (not the
GPL + Exception), but I'm sure they'll work something out.
geir
Regards,
Dave Gilbert
JFreeChart Project Leader
P.S. This is a personal opinion, but I'm happy to disclose that I'm an
occasional contributor to the GNU Classpath project.
