Re: Some questions on the proposal

2005-05-09 Thread Dalibor Topic
Sven de Marothy wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 06:47 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: I think the biggest barriers are various licensing issues, the fact that there isn't a "full stack project", and completeness. Well, the general issues of FSF vs ASF licensing if of course a concern to everybody

Re: Some questions on the proposal

2005-05-09 Thread Jason Brittain
Mark Wielaard wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 07:57 -0700, Jason Brittain wrote: Then this page (along with others) probably shouldn't say that it is under the "GNU General Public License V2 or later": http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/classpath You're right. It's not the GPL. It's some other license

Re: Some questions on the proposal

2005-05-09 Thread Sven de Marothy
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 07:57 -0700, Jason Brittain wrote: > > Classpath is a GNU project, but it is NOT under the GPL. > > Then this page (along with others) probably shouldn't say that it is under > the "GNU General Public License V2 or later": > > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/classpath That

Re: Some questions on the proposal

2005-05-09 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 07:57 -0700, Jason Brittain wrote: > Then this page (along with others) probably shouldn't say that it is under > the "GNU General Public License V2 or later": > > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/classpath > > You're right. It's not the GPL. It's some other license. But,

Re: Some questions on the proposal

2005-05-09 Thread Jason Brittain
Hi Sven. Sven de Marothy wrote: Classpath is a GNU project, but it is NOT under the GPL. Then this page (along with others) probably shouldn't say that it is under the "GNU General Public License V2 or later": http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/classpath You're right. It's not the GPL. It's some ot

Re: Some questions on the proposal

2005-05-09 Thread Sven de Marothy
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 06:47 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > I think the biggest barriers are various licensing issues, the fact > that there isn't a "full stack project", and completeness. Well, the general issues of FSF vs ASF licensing if of course a concern to everybody. But with that sai

Re: Some questions on the proposal

2005-05-09 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On May 8, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Sven de Marothy wrote: Hello all, I've contributed a line or two of code to Classpath, and so obviously I'm pretty interested in seeing a free implementation of Java, and I'm all for cooperation. Yay! But, I'm going to nasty and critical now and take a 'devil's advocate'

Some questions on the proposal

2005-05-08 Thread Sven de Marothy
Hello all, I've contributed a line or two of code to Classpath, and so obviously I'm pretty interested in seeing a free implementation of Java, and I'm all for cooperation. But, I'm going to nasty and critical now and take a 'devil's advocate' view here, just to get things clear for myself.. The