Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-15 Thread Dalibor Topic
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:50:44PM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > > Dalibor Topic wrote: > > > > >On a Harmony-unrelated side note, if you are interested in seeing your > >port in the Kaffe.org CVS tree, and your contract allows for it, feel > >free to send me the patch. :) > > > > > On a

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-15 Thread Chris Gray
Stefano, I think we should take Geir's advice and pipe down a bit. Those whose task it is to resolve this issue are by now pretty aware of the issues involved, and our "explanations" to eachother serve only to increase entropy. Meanwhile we may meditate on Jorge Luís Borges' story _Pierre Menar

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-14 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Chris Gray wrote: Hi Etienne, A little clarification. I don't claim that you can't study another's Free/Open Source (F/OS) VM source code, or that you can't contribute to multiple VMs over time. I claim that this does not allow you to COPY one VM's source code into another one without respect

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-14 Thread Stefano Mazzocchi
Etienne Gagnon wrote: Hi Leo, Leo Simons wrote: Thanks for your clarifications! Since Geir has informed me that some of the conversation related to this issue is currently also proceeding outside of the public forum (I must say I personally find that a shame -- all of the open source community

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-14 Thread Dalibor Topic
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 07:28:54AM -0800, Leo Simons wrote: > On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:38:00AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > > Etienne Gagnon wrote: > > >Leo Simons wrote: > > >>Thanks for your clarifications! Since Geir has informed me that some > > >>of the conversation related to this issu

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-14 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 09:38:00AM -0500, Geir Magnusson Jr wrote: > Etienne Gagnon wrote: > >Leo Simons wrote: > >>Thanks for your clarifications! Since Geir has informed me that some > >>of the conversation related to this issue is currently also proceeding > >>outside of the public forum (I must

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-14 Thread Matt Benson
--- Geir Magnusson Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Etienne Gagnon wrote: > > Hi Leo, > > > > Leo Simons wrote: > >> Thanks for your clarifications! Since Geir has > informed me that some > >> of the conversation related to this issue is > currently also proceeding > >> outside of the public

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-14 Thread Chris Gray
Hi Etienne, > A little clarification. I don't claim that you can't study another's > Free/Open Source (F/OS) VM source code, or that you can't contribute to > multiple VMs over time. I claim that this does not allow you to COPY > one VM's source code into another one without respecting the Copyr

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-14 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Etienne Gagnon wrote: Hi Leo, Leo Simons wrote: Thanks for your clarifications! Since Geir has informed me that some of the conversation related to this issue is currently also proceeding outside of the public forum (I must say I personally find that a shame -- all of the open source communit

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-14 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Leo, Leo Simons wrote: > Thanks for your clarifications! Since Geir has informed me that some > of the conversation related to this issue is currently also proceeding > outside of the public forum (I must say I personally find that a shame > -- all of the open source community can learn from th

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-14 Thread Leo Simons
Hi Etienne, Thanks for your clarifications! Since Geir has informed me that some of the conversation related to this issue is currently also proceeding outside of the public forum (I must say I personally find that a shame -- all of the open source community can learn from things like this if the

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-14 Thread Leo Simons
Hi Archie! On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 06:15:41PM -0600, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Etienne Gagnon wrote: > >1- I do claim shared copyright on JCVM/JCHEVM. I do not and will not > >back down from this. > > > >2- As far as I can tell from the above, both the ASF and Archie Cobbs > >seem to agree to acknowl

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Etienne Gagnon wrote: Hi Dalibor, Leo, and all, Archie wrote: 3. So what do we do? My wish is to give SableVM the benefit of the doubt. If there's something in there they claim is "theirs", we can take it out and replace it. I'd rather do that than argue about it. We sho

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-13 Thread Archie Cobbs
Etienne Gagnon wrote: 1- I do claim shared copyright on JCVM/JCHEVM. I do not and will not back down from this. 2- As far as I can tell from the above, both the ASF and Archie Cobbs seem to agree to acknowledge this shared copyright. Um, I think I agree... so what is the practical import? In

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-13 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
Dalibor Topic wrote: On a Harmony-unrelated side note, if you are interested in seeing your port in the Kaffe.org CVS tree, and your contract allows for it, feel free to send me the patch. :) On a harmony-related note, are you interested in looking at Weldon's glue layer to see if Kaffe

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-13 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Dalibor, Leo, and all, Archie wrote: 3. So what do we do? My wish is to give SableVM the benefit of the doubt. If there's something in there they claim is "theirs", we can take it out and replace it. I'd rather do that than argue about it. We should remember that JCVM owe

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-13 Thread Dalibor Topic
On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 09:04:49AM -0800, Leo Simons wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I am not a laywer. I don't play one on TV, though I've played one on > stage a few weeks ago. > > If I understand correctly, determining whether codebase A is a derivative > work of codebase B is somewhat hard work. We

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-13 Thread Leo Simons
Hi everyone, I am not a laywer. I don't play one on TV, though I've played one on stage a few weeks ago. If I understand correctly, determining whether codebase A is a derivative work of codebase B is somewhat hard work. We have a codebase B in the Harmony tree and a contributor to codebase A ass

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-13 Thread Chris Gray
On Monday 13 March 2006 15:22, Dalibor Topic wrote: > On a Harmony-unrelated side note, if you are interested in seeing your > port in the Kaffe.org CVS tree, and your contract allows for it, feel > free to send me the patch. :) I'm afraid it's lost in the mists of time, Dali - last century was a

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-13 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Chris, A little clarification. I don't claim that you can't study another's Free/Open Source (F/OS) VM source code, or that you can't contribute to multiple VMs over time. I claim that this does not allow you to COPY one VM's source code into another one without respecting the Copyright. Mai

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-13 Thread Dalibor Topic
Chris Gray wrote: >>The key change is "and that implementation is not available under a >>recognized Open Source license" - because except for copying, which we >>don't allow, any ideas found in open-source-licensed source code are not >>trade secrets and therefore able to be re-implemented by oth

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-12 Thread Chris Gray
Geir, > Note that the last snippet that you quote has been evolved to : > >If you have answered yes to any question above, and that >implementation is not available under a recognized Open >Source license, you may not be an contributor to the >related component of Apache Harmony un

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-12 Thread Etienne Gagnon
See below. >> So, if the Harmony project has no problem acknowledging the shared >> Copyright of SableVM authors on JCHEVM, I will get in touch with these >> authors to get their consent to a license change. > > That's excellent! I see no problem with that. We traditionally give > credit where

Re: [Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-12 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr
I'm about to run for the airport, but there's one thing I wished to point you to just so there's no misunderstanding, and a comment... Etienne Gagnon wrote: [Message bounced->I subscribed->here it is...] Hi Archie (and Harmony developers), I see that the public discussion has actually start

[Fwd: Re: [jchevm] JCHEVM discussion]

2006-03-12 Thread Etienne Gagnon
[Message bounced->I subscribed->here it is...] Hi Archie (and Harmony developers), I see that the public discussion has actually started. I would have rather liked to settle all this quietly. :-/ First, let me say that I admire the cleverness of Archie, when it comes to develop code. I respe