Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Savannah Projects Approval

[Iván García Alcaide]

Dear friends,

Rudy Gevaert wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 03:43:05PM +0200, Iv?n Garc?a Alcaide wrote:
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> > Sources will be available to be compiled and run by anyone with its 
> > favorite suite. I will follos Java Sun Specification described in J2SDK 
> > and the libraries I will use are original form Apache Jakarta Project. I 
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> These libraries are Free Software, right?

Yes, no doubt :-), It's part of Apache fundation software.

> > can not ensure that GNU Java projects are complete enough to have 
> > implemented those specifications but I if not, I'm sure they will (at 
> > least I hope so).
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> As long as your project can be run with a Free implementation Java
> then it's ok.
>
>
> > Anyway my intention is to test it and if something is not working 
> > properly with GNU Java projects I'll do my best to collaborate with the 
> > appropriate project.
>
>
> Thank you, but we have to point out that so long your project requires
> non free software, we can't host it on Savannah.
>
> Can you be more clearer about this?

Well, what I mean is that I want my project to be free under GPL (that's 
clear :-) ). What I will do is to follow free specifications of Java 
language and, if necessary, totally free libraries. What I can not 
ensure is that there is a free JVM and compiler able to run the project. 
I can not ensure it because of two main reasons:

 - I don't know how complete are free JVMs like Japhar or Sable.

 - I don't know how complete is classpath project (or any other free 
implementation of j2sdk 1.4 classes).

So, in case that I follow a free specification but not implemented by a 
free project, is it considered a project that cannot be run under a free 
java suite?. If the answer is yes, It would be better not to use 
savannah because of the risk. What I mean is, what happen if I use a 
method of j2sdk 1.4 that it is not implemented by classpath project 
neither any other similar free project?.

Yours sincerily,

--
Iván García Alcaide
Dpto. Lenguajes Sistemas y Proyectos Informáticos
Escuela Universitaria de Informática
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
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