Great.

Now wouldn't it be more sustainable for the long term to nagotiate
with Jakarta to put out the common code in a separate package so
it can be used both by Jakarta and EJBoss?  Just think of the need
to keep an eye on yet another redundant copy in the puzzle.

Cheers,

--Amos

(And thanks for all the great work you are doing on EJBoss, wish
I could donate time...)

marc fleury wrote:
> 
> marc fleury wrote:
> >
> > Wong Kok Wai wrote:
> > >
> > > Oleg Nitz wrote:
> > >
> > > > 3) to include javac.jar (or tools.jar) to EJBoss distribution for jdk1.2.2
> > >
> > > This is not allowed by Sun. Ant is a special case as the original developer is a
> > > Sun staff and he got permission to distribute a scaled-down version of javac.
> >
> > hmmmm I'd double check that.  Since ant is part of Jakarta and jakarta
> > is part of apache, chances are that the version of javac that is in
> > there (ANT) is redistributable.  I'll check the license on that puppy.
> >
> > marc
> 
> Ok ANT is part of Jakarta (sub-project) and ALL of Jakarta is under The
> Apache License.
> 
> We can perfectly redistribute the source code and binary from javac.jar
> as included in the ANT.
> 
> marc
> 
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