Re: Does J2SDK 5.0 BCL preclude contributions to Classpath?

2005-06-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
Matt Van Gundy wrote: Thomas, Thank you, I think that yours is a sane interpretation of that clause. On further thought, I'd have to concur that, re-implementation of a standard most likely doesn't imply creation... and the previous licenses seem to agree. Thanks for helping me see it

Re: Does J2SDK 5.0 BCL preclude contributions to Classpath?

2005-06-06 Thread Matt Van Gundy
Thomas, Thank you, I think that yours is a sane interpretation of that clause. On further thought, I'd have to concur that, re-implementation of a standard most likely doesn't imply creation... and the previous licenses seem to agree. Thanks for helping me see it another way, Matt Thomas

Re: Does J2SDK 5.0 BCL preclude contributions to Classpath?

2005-06-05 Thread Thomas Zander
I read your paste as being unable to create _new_ classes not published in the Java Platform Interface JPI. Referencing the 1.4.2 version; this simply seems like a shorter version saying the same things, except where the 1.4.2 version said you were allowed to invent new APIs, but had to publish

Does J2SDK 5.0 BCL preclude contributions to Classpath?

2005-06-04 Thread Matt Van Gundy
Classpath developers, In an attempt to upgrade my the JVM on my development box to Sun's latest release I was perusing the new version of the BCL and noticed that the Java Technology Restrictions section had changed from previous BCLs. I quote it for reference: D. Java Technology

Re: Does J2SDK 5.0 BCL preclude contributions to Classpath?

2005-06-04 Thread Robert Schuster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Matt, have you seen this: http://developer.classpath.org/mediation/ClasspathFirstSteps#head-9d8423acc71a1bd7817642969981efd5331078d0 Is that answering your question? cu Robert Matt Van Gundy wrote: Classpath developers, In an attempt to

Re: Does J2SDK 5.0 BCL preclude contributions to Classpath?

2005-06-04 Thread Matt Van Gundy
Thanks for the pointer Robert, It is a similar issue, however, the information you linked to didn't quite answer the question. Because, my question concerns Sun's BCL rather than the SCSL, there is not issue of being tainted by having seen non-free source code. I'm bothered by an item in the