Re: I wish to help

[Chris Gray]

On 31 Oct 2002, Brian Jones wrote:

> So I'm pretty much of the opinion that Classpath's AWT just needs a
> little TLC from someone dedicated to it for a while to make it
> useable.  Having JVMs without major threading issues will aid this
> development.  This is why I would personally develop the peers against
> Sun's VM, if I had the time to devote to it.
> 
> Acunia has almost officially made this offer, but because it would be
> unlikely for me to get contributors to assign their copyright on
> changes back to this corporation that may not be so benevolent in the
> future (no guarantees) I'm inclined to believe we must continue
> working on the current implementation.

Although The Boss is now back, I haven't yet cornered him to double-check 
this. However I'm sure that to get into our main source tree, code would 
need to be assigned to us, or at least released under a licence no more
restrictive than BSD: anything else would need to be "quarantined" to 
prevent it from leaking into a BSD'd or binary-only product. IOW it would 
be an "external library" from out POV.

> It remains a possibility that if Acunia's current AWT is dual licensed 
> in the manner Chris described that parts of this work could be
> integrated as an external library to provide optional functionality in
> Classpath's AWT.  So inspection of their implementation would be
> possible but no verbatim copying allowed into _our_ classes.  We could
> create a separate directory to place their library with an appropriate
> README indicating this is not part of Classpath and when we compile we
> could link this library without trouble.  I hope this explains what is
> meant by external library in reference to FSF projects.

But if that is all you intend to do, isn't the current (BSD) licence good 
enough?

Regards

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Chris Gray

VM Architect, ACUNIA