Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread MrDemeanour
Marcus Better wrote: MrDemeanour wrote: Hmm, to me it seems that oddly enough FSF considers it free: That seems to mean that it's Debian-compatible There is apparently no consensus on this point. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/08/msg00028.html Thanks, that's a very helpful

Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Thu, 2006-08-31 at 15:15 +0200, Marcus Better wrote: > Matthias Klose wrote: > > what do you mean by "out of the box"? > > Sorry for being unclear. Can the classpathx versions work as drop-in > replacements for the Sun packages? > > (JBoss contains jar files for JavaMail 1.3.1 and JAF 1.0.2. I

Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread Marcus Better
MrDemeanour wrote: >> Hmm, to me it seems that oddly enough FSF considers it free: > That seems to mean that it's Debian-compatible There is apparently no consensus on this point. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/08/msg00028.html Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread Andrew Haley
Timo Juhani Lindfors writes: > Hi, > > On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:33:03PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > > It certainly doesn't appear on the FSF list of free licences. It is, > > Hmm, to me it seems that oddly enough FSF considers it free: > > $ lynx -dump http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/l

Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread MrDemeanour
Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: Hi, On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:33:03PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: It certainly doesn't appear on the FSF list of free licences. It is, Hmm, to me it seems that oddly enough FSF considers it free: $ lynx -dump http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html | grep

Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Hi, On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:33:03PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote: > It certainly doesn't appear on the FSF list of free licences. It is, Hmm, to me it seems that oddly enough FSF considers it free: $ lynx -dump http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html | grep -A 5 "(CDDL)" [101]Common

Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread Marcus Better
Tom Marble wrote: > Why not use Sun's JavaMail and JAF? It seems that the CDDL is not considered sufficiently free for Debian. At least that's what I gathered from the lengthy discussions on mailing lists. Or is there a decision to the opposite effect? Anyway I would rather leave

Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread Andrew Haley
will work out of the box? > > > > Why not use Sun's JavaMail and JAF? As of April they are now Free > > software under the CDDL: > > http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/index.jsp > > Since when did the CDDL equate to "Free"? It certainly doe

Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread MrDemeanour
Tom Marble wrote: Marcus Better wrote: the pkg-jboss project needs DFSG-free versions of Sun's JavaMail and Java Activation Framework libraries. Can anyone tell me whether the GNU versions (already in Debian) will work out of the box? Why not use Sun's JavaMail and JAF? As of Apri

Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread Tom Marble
Marcus Better wrote: > the pkg-jboss project needs DFSG-free versions of Sun's JavaMail and Java > Activation Framework libraries. Can anyone tell me whether the GNU versions > (already in Debian) will work out of the box? Why not use Sun's JavaMail and JAF? As of Apri

Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread Matthias Klose
Marcus Better writes: > Hello, > > the pkg-jboss project needs DFSG-free versions of Sun's JavaMail and Java > Activation Framework libraries. Can anyone tell me whether the GNU versions > (already in Debian) will work out of the box? what do you mean by "out of the box"? If they don't work, plea

Re: JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread Marcus Better
Matthias Klose wrote: > what do you mean by "out of the box"? Sorry for being unclear. Can the classpathx versions work as drop-in replacements for the Sun packages? (JBoss contains jar files for JavaMail 1.3.1 and JAF 1.0.2. I intend to replace them with the ones from classpathx.) Marcus --

JavaMail and JAF

2006-08-31 Thread Marcus Better
Hello, the pkg-jboss project needs DFSG-free versions of Sun's JavaMail and Java Activation Framework libraries. Can anyone tell me whether the GNU versions (already in Debian) will work out of the box? Thanks, Marcus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri