Re: Proposal for a response to SUN's announcement
On Friday 17 November 2006 19:48, Nick Hill wrote: is probably overdue. better late, than later (or even never :-)
Re: Proposal for a response to SUN's announcement
On 11/17/06, Nick Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reaction of many Classpath developers can be seen on planet.classpath.org. On IRC the sentence we came up with - but possibly after you drafted your mail - was The planet.classpath.org website carries the reactions of many individual Classpath developers. I think this version is an improvement, but I'm biased because it's my phrasing in the first place :) Stuart. -- http://sab39.netreach.com/
Re: Proposal for a response to SUN's announcement
Nick Hill wrote: Following a discussion on #classpath IRC at around 6pm BST, we have arrived at a potential response to SUNs announcement of the impending release of SUN Java under the GPL. We welcome Sun's announcement of the forthcoming release of Java under the GNU GPL. Sun's announcement makes Java an excellent choice for cross-platform development of Free Software. We are still digesting the implications of the announcement for the Classpath project and have not yet made any firm plans as to the long term future. In the meantime, we are focusing on supporting our existing customer base whilst continuing to improve the best-of-breed packages in Classpath, in readiness for the release of the SUN code base. The reaction of many Classpath developers can be seen on planet.classpath.org. I'm sure it is not perfect, and is probably overdue. If an official response is deemed necessary, this one seems good. It is fairly content free, which I think is all you can have given the constraints that it is a press release *and* from a moderatly large free software project. David Daney
Re: Proposal for a response to SUN's announcement
Hi, On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 11:09 -0800, David Daney wrote: If an official response is deemed necessary, this one seems good. It is fairly content free, which I think is all you can have given the constraints that it is a press release *and* from a moderatly large free software project. To keep things really simple I'll install the attached patch to point to the official FSF press release and add the link to Planet Classpath for a collection of individual reactions. 2006-11-17 Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] * docs/www.gnu.org/newsitems.txt: Add Sun GPL news announcement. It does seem a good thing to acknowledge and thank Sun for their announcement. Cheers, Mark diff -u -r1.40 newsitems.txt --- newsitems.txt 12 Aug 2006 23:57:19 - 1.40 +++ newsitems.txt 17 Nov 2006 21:11:40 - @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +newsitem date=15 Nov 2006 +createlink name=FSF welcomes Sun's GPL release of Java +url=http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html;br +createlink name=Planet Classpath url=http://planet.classpath.org/; +carries the reactions of many individual GNU Classpath developers. +/newsitem + newsitem date=09 Aug 2006 createlink name=GNU Classpath 0.92 url=announce/20060809.html
