"Mark Thomas" wrote in message news:4f6f8735.3090...@apache.org...
On 25/03/2012 17:24, Costin Manolache wrote:
For Tomcat7 I'm proposing to only add hooks: 'beforeHandshake' callback
in
Handler, and an optional NpnHandler class plus setters in protocol.
There is no Java7 or spdy dependency at all.
Sounds good to me.
The main question is if it's ok to add a build-time dependency on
npn-boot,
Is this required for 7.0.x or just trunk? I'm assuming just trunk.
Since users will still have to download npn-boot.jar ( it contains GPL so
probably can't be distributed with tomcat ) - they could also download a
jar with those 2 classes and the 2 for jio. That's the second option, if
compile-time dep to gpl is not ok.
I think that the compile-time dep on GPL needs to be completely
optional. I have no issue with using such a dep in the release builds
but I image that there are folks downstream who aren't that relaxed. It
should be possible to structure this in such a way that Tomcat can still
be compiled if the GPL'd JAR is not available.
Yes, the company I work for in my day job is one of those that won't be that
relaxed. My CTO has a strict no GPL policy (because our clients also don't
want GPL). Apache is about releasing code under the AL2, and is why it has
been successful. IMHO if this module requires GPL code then it should
permanently stay on github as an optional addon module for Tomcat that can
be downloaded from there, but not included in the normal Tomcat release
which should be a pure AL2 license.
The 3rd option is to have the entire spdy package outside tomcat - but
keep
the hooks ( i.e. 'beforeHandshake', NpnHandler, etc ) - like I'm
proposing
for tomcat7.
That seems excessively complex for the folks that want to use spdy but I
have no issue with that approach.
Mark
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