RE: Corba & Licensing questions Note1 = Note 2.

[Meskauskas Audrius]

I have joined the team only recently and did not participate in discussions, 
related to the Classpath license. Of course, it was possible to choose GPL 
or LGPL. At some step, a decission was accepted to use the existing license. 
I hope, there were serious reasons for that. Also, I hope, there were some 
serious reasons to raise  the requirement of transferring the rights to the 
Free Software Foundation.

JackORB exists for a comparatively long time, but during this time, it has 
never been contributed to Classpath. The JackORB licence has never been 
changed into Classpath license, and the copyright has never been transferred 
to FSF. As a result, I have not had a possibility to reuse the JackORB code 
and reimplemented my own.

This is true not just for the public classes in omg.org.CORBA and related, 
but also for the WORKING CORE CLASSES in gnu.CORBA package. These classes 
are now - sorry - more or less complete for the version 1.2. The code is of 
course not mature, but it is covered by multiple tests from the former CORBA 
open source testing package, cost.omg.org. Classpath CORBA is fully 
interoperable with Suns implementation 1.2. And, as a side effect of the 
required compatibility, you can use the Sun 1.3 IDL compiler before somebody 
will write or adapth a Free one. Under such circumstances, I see no reason 
of using any part of JackORB under its present license a least for the 1.2 
and 1.3 releases.

Audrius Meskauskas, Lithuania.