Hi John,

Agree with your thoughts but ... Gary already proposed a patch with
Rome... Reread the thread ;)

Cheers,

Vincent

2008/5/5, John Hjelmstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> IANAL, but my understanding is that any code that links to GPL-licensed code
>  must be GPL-licensed as well (
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License - Criticism). Can
>  anyone confirm/deny in this case?
>
>  I can't imagine we'd change Shindig's overall license, so it seems we'd have
>  a few options here:
>  1. See if David Pashley would be willing to grant us an exception or change
>  Eddie's license. The fact that there's already a GPL exception attached to
>  Eddie (www.davidpashley.com/eddie.html) suggests this isn't likely to
>  happen. The existing exception allows creation of binaries linking to Eddie
>  irrespective their license: not exactly compatible with our goals.
>  2. Use an alternate underlying feed parsing library such as Rome (
>  https://rome.dev.java.net/) or Apache Abdera (
>  http://incubator.apache.org/abdera/).
>
>  Thoughts?
>
>  John
>
>  On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 12:53 AM, Milinda Lakmal Pathirage (JIRA) <
>  [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  >
>  >    [
>
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-60?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12591941#action_12591941]
>  >
>  > Milinda Lakmal Pathirage commented on SHINDIG-60:
>  > -------------------------------------------------
>  >
>  > Eddie is licensed under GPL. Can Apache project use that. It may raise
>  > license problem in the future.
>  >
>  > > Shindig does not properly support the FEED content type as defined by the
>  > gadgets spec for gadgets.io.MakeRequest
>  > >
>  > 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  > >
>  > >                 Key: SHINDIG-60
>  > >                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SHINDIG-60
>  > >             Project: Shindig
>  > >          Issue Type: Improvement
>  > >          Components: Features (Javascript), Gadget Rendering Server
>  > (Java), Gadget Rendering Server (PHP)
>  > >            Reporter: Cassie Doll
>  > >            Priority: Critical
>  > >         Attachments: io.js.patch, ProxyHandler.java.patch
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > The FEED contentType in gadgets.io.MakeRequest should not return general
>  > json in the same way that the JSON contentType does. It should instead
>  > return a structured object that looks like this:
>  > > http://code.google.com/apis/gadgets/docs/remote-content.html#Fetch_JSON
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