> > I sincerely believe in free software but wouldn't build a project like > > Harmony with the hope that Sun or Oracle would change some conflicting > > license terms. > > I'm sure that Sun's refusal to provide access to the TCK under > non-discriminatory terms came as a surprise to Apache. The wording of > the documents governing the JCP and the open sourcing of Java did not > lead Apache to expect that Sun/Oracle block access to the TCK in order > to prevent an open independent implementation of Java.
I'm not new to Java and free software, but new to Harmony, a project I didn't follow until recently. Trying to learn Harmony history, it's clear that its announcement on 2005-05-09 at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.java.classpath.devel/5521 was long before Sun even decided to choose the GNU GPL for Java on 2006-11-13 http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/t84244.html And anyway even if the TCK was finally available under GNU GPL, the ASF wouldn't be probably satisfied because they would like it to be under Apache license and not GNU GPL. Sorry to be rude, but this fact makes me believe that Apache built Harmony on promises. -- Emmanuel Puybaret -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
