Re: [ANNOUNCE] XSLT-process 2.2 available

[Ovidiu Predescu]

Richard,

On Friday, Jan 17, 2003, at 16:47 US/Pacific, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     I would bet good money that Xalan will not compile on GCJ.  It
>     might require some modifications to get working.  I wanted to
>     spend some time documenting the difference between GCJ and JDK 1.4
>     and will do that in a month or so when I port over NewsMonster.
>
> Is anyone interested in trying Xalan in GCJ and seeing if it does work?
>
> We can't consider XSLT-process as a legitimate part of the free
> software world if it needs JDK to run.  Fixing this ought to be the
> highest priority.

You also have to realize XSLT-process depends on open-source software, 
but not free-software. Xalan and Saxon are not licensed under L/GPL, 
but under their own open-source licenses. JDK is just one part of the 
story, the other is composed of Xalan, Saxon, and other XML related 
libraries used by XSLT-process which have their own licenses.

XSLT-process can download these non-GPL libraries when it first runs, 
to keep the package small and completely free-software. Or if their 
license is not a problem, we can just leave things as they are now. 
What do you think?

Best regards,
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