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Subject: Re: Spec sources in Geronimo
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:34:08 -0800
From: Jeremy Boynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Brian McCallister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Brian McCallister wrote:
My understanding is that these are not Sun sources, they are interfaces and classes written by Geronimo folks specifically in order to avoid having to avoid being dependent on the SCSL sources Sun provides.
Just to confirm Brian is right here. Sun impose licensing restrictions on their jars that are more restrictive than the Apache License so we cannot distribute them with Geronimo. The specs module contains independent implementations of those jars that are signature compatible with the specification.
Unfortunately some of Sun's APIs actually contain a substantial amount of implmentation too; examples would be JavaMail or Activation. With these we attempt to mimic the behaviour of the RI as closely as possible (beyond what is tested by the TCK if one is available) to avoid incompatibilities.
All this is in order to comply with Sun's licensing restrictions; if we could distribute their APIs, we would.
-- Jeremy
-Brian
On Feb 16, 2005, at 7:29 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
Hi,
I have noticed two things;
1. Geronimo have a large set of sources from Sun located in their subversion
repository. https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/geronimo/trunk/specs
2. Committers are modifying these.
Is this some special deal that Geronimo project have, that other projects doesn't have, or can any project do this, or are Geronimo effectively breaching the licensing terms from Sun??
Cheers Niclas
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