Hi, On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 23:18, Michael Emmel wrote: > Sun has offered to clarify the SCSL license and its effect on projects > such and Gnu Classpath. > > This happened in the following discussion thread > > http://www.javalobby.org/thread.jspa?messageID=91789909&threadID=11559&forumID=61
Thanks for forwarding this. Good to see so much enthousiasm about our FOSDEM meeting. It really does feel like we have enough critical mass now. There is now enough free code for the libraries, VMs and compilers to do useful things. And people are now actually using it to creating completely free applications. So we will see lots of interesting things for the free platforms in the near future. I'll try to formulate the concerns of the Free Software projects about the SCSL, contributions of people who have studied other implementations of the core classes that want to help the free projects (contributions which we currently cannot accept since legal counsel has advised against that) and the way we think the JCP process and the TCK licensing/distribution terms are unhelpful now for collaboration on Free Software implementations. Please give me a couple of days to contact the right people. And to make sure we formulate our questions and concerns coherently. I want to avoid an ESR style letter which I think is not helpful. Hopefully we can start a dialog that helps both the people that care about the Free Software movement and people that care about standardization of jave-like platforms. I'll make sure to contact Onno with some specific issues in the next two weeks Sincerely, Mark Wielaard GNU Classpath Maintainer
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