On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:07 AM, Alex Siman <aleksandr.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What is the problem with that GPL?

>From http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

"GPLv3 software cannot be included in Apache projects. The licenses
are incompatible in one direction only, and it is a result of ASF's
licensing philosophy and the GPLv3 authors' interpretation of
copyright law."

--
Martin Cooper


> Maybe we can ask the j18n author to add
> Apache kind license?
>
> BTW I used to think that "open source is really open". I am bored w/ all
> those licenses. IMHO it's like native2ascii to me.
>
> Philip Luppens wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Alex Siman <aleksandr.si...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I hacked class [com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.LocalizedTextUtil] and now
>>> it
>>> uses [http://sourceforge.net/projects/j18n/] to load resource bundles.
>>> J18n
>>> allows *.properties files to be in UTF-8 encoding and contain not escaped
>>> UTF-8 characters. This is very usable in comparison with Java's
>>> native2ascii. native2ascii is a very big mess!
>>
>> I fully agree - the native2ascii approach is a mess and even with
>> IntelliJ's transparent support, I still find myself encountering
>> issues. I never understood why the XML properties are read by default
>> in UTF-8 and the line based properties use latin-1. But I digress ...
>>
>>>
>>> All that needs to be replaced in LocalizedTextUtils is:
>>>
>>>        ResourceBundle.getBundle -> J18n.getBundle
>>>
>>> I know that there were some plans on UTF-8 in XWork, but I do not how the
>>> current status of them.
>>
>> Contacting issues aside, the problem here is the GPL license.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Phil
>>
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