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From: "Mladen Turk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Tomcat Developers List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
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Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 3:24 AM
Subject: RE: [5.0] Problems with the next release
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: jean-frederic clere
> >
> > Mladen Turk wrote:
> > >
> > > What about linking to static microsoft libraries?
> >
> > That is probably not OK.
> >
>
> I know that, but I know too that the law doesn't have a term _probably_ in
> it's dictionary.
>
> >
> > > Do we need to sign that or ASF will perhaps provide us with the
> > > development tools needed?
> >
> > Use Open Source tools and/or help to improve existing ones.
> >
>
> Again, Is it required to use open source tools or not?
> Is it up to me and my moral or is there some ASF board decision on that?
> I had to sign for my current company that will take care that there are no
> illegal software on my boxes (as probably everyone else did).
>
> Take a look at http(apr, apr-util, etc...). The win32 port has vstudio
build
> files (like our connectors). My question is, where those tools comes from?
> ASF or developers that have couple of 1000$ to spend?
> Also I heard that the ASF has an agreement with InstallShield. I would
love
> to receive a license for some of those tools if possible :-).
A quick look at the VS build files for httpd shows that they are using
dynamic linking for the MS stuff ("Multithreaded DLL"). The tools
themselves aren't really relevant: gcc is GPL and glibc is LGPL.
>
> Since all of the board members are from httpd project, seems to me that
all
> the decisions have been made through this point of view. It's not hard to
> implement this decisions for that particular project. They done this so
far,
> although for different reasons (no ssl enabled dist, etc...).
>
> Henri, Remy and Costin proposed to move the binaries to sourceforge, until
> the things clears up.
> I'm in favor of that, and will support such a decision if voted.
>
> MT.
>
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