Re: testing before a release

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 08:31:55AM -0500, Brian Jones wrote:
> Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I think this means one of two things. Either we wait till Per Bothner
> > reports on the progress he has made for the gcc/libgcj project. Hopefully
> > they come to some sort of agreement that can also be used for the Classpath
> > project (having both Classpath AWT and libgcj AWT under the same license
> > would be a big win). Or we make sure that all primary authors of our AWT
> > implementation don't mind the license change to GPL and we change the
> > copyright notice for all java.awt.* packages. If the primary authors
> > (Aaron Renn, Brian Jones and Paul Fisher) mail me this is OK then I will
> > change the copyright notice as soon as possible.
> 
> To make a release, we need to change the java.awt.* license headers to
> indicate the code is covered by the GPL.  We're doing this because as
> the decision maker for our project, RMS has requested it and at this
> time not doing so would be counterproductive.
> 
> I'm attaching a emacs lisp script Paul wrote a long time ago to change
> the license stuff for Japhar and it could be useful to someone now
> who'd like to help by making this change.  It does look like a simple
> perl or sed script could remove the "Library" part and that would be
> enough.  Are you still volunteering to do this Mark?

Yes, but still on the condition stated above, that the primary authors
of the (gnu.)java.awt.* packages agree that this is the correct thing to
do. I suppose you and Paul discussed this and agreed on it. That means
that I would like to have Aaron his OK. Am I missing someone (the mailing
list archives suggest that Jim Blair did a lot of work on this, but I
don't know if much of his code is now in the tree and will be relicensed).
If anybody else who did actual work on these packages objects please speak
up now.

We also need a LICENSE.README file precisely stating the impact of this
relicensing. If nobody comes up with one I will make one up myself and
post it to the list (and RMS) for OK.

Cheers,

Mark
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