Re: [VOTE]: On " PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project"

2005-05-07 Thread Niclas Hedhman
On Saturday 07 May 2005 07:18, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > +1 +0 (positive, but won't be able to contribute, but there seems to be too many in that area already) Cheers Niclas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For addi

Re: [VOTE]: On " PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project"

2005-05-07 Thread Paul Hammant
Yeah yeah, its a confusing Saturday so far. I was -ve to start with (pointless with given size of vote so far) thinking there were some legal problems. I read more before completing the mail (rules for J2SE implementations from the OSS community) and figured that the angles had been covered tho

Re: [VOTE]: On " PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project"

2005-05-07 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On May 7, 2005, at 3:39 PM, Paul Hammant wrote: -1 I'm not sure the On May 7, 2005, at 4:06 PM, Paul Hammant wrote: +1 provided copyright and trademark issues are appropriately considered. So right now, you are at 0 :) For instance, we may have to always mechanically refer the project and pr

Re: [VOTE]: On " PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project"

2005-05-07 Thread Paul Hammant
+1 provided copyright and trademark issues are appropriately considered. For instance, we may have to always mechanically refer the project and product(s) as "Apache Harmony" rather than just Harmony. http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=8rlf0q.2.1 - Paul On May 6, 2005, at 6:18

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-07 Thread Roy T . Fielding
On May 7, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Paul Hammant wrote: Unless I am mistaken, Apache licensed code will never be able to 'legally' import GPL code. You are mistaken -- the copyright owner can do whatever they want, as can users. It is only redistributors that are constrained on how they can combine and

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-07 Thread Roy T . Fielding
On May 6, 2005, at 9:20 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: The aforementioned issues between GPL and AL aside, I am still trying to see how the TCK licensing restrictions are compatible with the GPL. According to the FSF licensing page, the Apache License is deemed by the FSF to be "incompatible with t

Re: [VOTE]: On " PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project"

2005-05-07 Thread Paul Hammant
-1 I'm not sure the On May 6, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Noel J. Bergman wrote: +1 --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-07 Thread Paul Hammant
If we want to integrate any new code produced by the Harmany effort into any of the existing projects, many of which are under the GPL or only accept code compatible with the GPL, and since the Apache Incubator terms allow modern BSD, MIT/X or MIT/W3C terms I think that is probably the best we can

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-07 Thread Doug Lea
Re: licensing etc. I think the brilliance of Geir's move here is that all of FSF, Sun, IBM, BEA, etc now have equal motivation to change their licensing so that they can participate. I hope they all do. -Doug - To unsubscribe, e-m

Re: PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project

2005-05-07 Thread Graham Leggett
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: We, the sponsoring members listed below, ask that you accept the following proposal for a new project at Apache, an effort centered around architecting and implementing J2SE 5. +1. Regards, Graham -- smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-07 Thread Sam Ruby
Mark Wielaard wrote: I'll make sure I talk to one of the FSF legal people again to make sure there is progress in these discussions. Some people are setting up a new teleconference between the ASF and FSF to talk about these issues more directly. The lengthy set of teleconferences we have been havi

RE: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-07 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 00:26 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > But why bother to "work with others"? Why not just join the existing GNU > > Classpath and Kaffe projects and work within them? > > > Geir indicated in a reply to my earlier posting that there were > > no specific objections to the

RE: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-07 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 00:20 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Mark Wielaard wrote: > > > I had hoped it would have more emphasized the fact that we would do > > everything in our power to work out the philosophical, legal and > > practical issues when reusing existing code for Harmony. > > Wel