Odd that his contribution wasn't picked up by Gmail in this threadview, but hey, fantastic! Onward...
On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 3:10 PM, Vincent Siveton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > -- > > > This message is automatically generated by JIRA. > > > - > > > You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online. > > > > > > > > >
