Re: [Classpathx-discuss] Fw: [Classpathx-xml] What is the status of gnujaxp?

[Dalibor Topic]

Salut Arnaud,

--- Arnaud Vandyck <address@hidden> wrote:
> Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> wrote:
> > GNUJAXP is under development, I am working on the build system and
> > when I've done that I'll be working on bugs and missing features.
> 
> Why don't you base the build system on jakarta-ant? Apache License is
> also free software, isn't it?

Kind of, but GPL incompatible according to the FSF.

And I don't know if any free VM can really run latest/any Ant releases all that
well (kaffe can with a bit of prodding). I've had a long, boring discussion on
that topic (and how far GPL applies accross interpreter boundaries, the annual
mild licensing flamewar) with a debian developer archived here
http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2002-August/027705.html . In short, if you
use Ant, you automatically kick yourself out of debian-free as long as no other
VM can 'legally'[1] run ant.

cheers,
dalibor topic

[1] as in debian-legal approves of the license combination, which it does not
of GPL + ASF, since they choose to follow the FSF on that issue.

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