Tom Wang wrote:
Below is the answer I got from Per. I guess that nix the qexo integration. I will check with xalan and see what their plan is regarding xpath 2.0. Thanks for the reply.
-tom
I'd be happy for you to use Qexo, assuming you can work with the license. (I'm reluctant to switch to the Apache license, because I'm hoping to make some money from commercial licensing.)
Sheesh... isn't that funny? GPL as of today is the best way to make commercial software in an open-sourceish way. I'm wondering if RMS is realizing how he's actually *promoting* commercial software instead than free: yeah, you have "free" as in speech, but if you want to speak you have to pay admittance. Oh well...
Note that Apache seems to have no problems depending on Sun classes for which there are no Free (open-sourcve) implementations, so I don't think they have any cause to object in principle to depending on Kawa-licensed code.
No way, the point here is virality. This has been discussed at length in other places so I won't delve into it, but the point is that if we are to use GPL (or any GPL derived) Java code, all our codebase would become instantly GPL because of virality. This doesn't happen for Sun classes.
Ciao,
-- Gianugo Rabellino Pro-netics s.r.l. http://www.pro-netics.com
