Re: PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project

2005-05-06 Thread Ted Leung
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RE: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> But why bother to "work with others"? Why not just join the existing GNU > Classpath and Kaffe projects and work within them? > Geir indicated in a reply to my earlier posting that there were > no specific objections to the Classpath license. There is a list of issues with both the LGPL and the

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On May 7, 2005, at 12:05 AM, Simon Kitching wrote: On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:52 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: Sorry, the previous email was sent incomplete. I'll try again.. On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:45 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:10 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: Simon Kitchi

RE: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Mark Wielaard wrote: > I had hoped it would have more emphasized the fact that we would do > everything in our power to work out the philosophical, legal and > practical issues when reusing existing code for Harmony. Well, I think it does try, but at this point it must be more important how we go

RE: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:52 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > Sorry, the previous email was sent incomplete. I'll try again.. > > On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:45 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:10 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > Simon Kitching wrote: > > > > > > > legally i

RE: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
Sorry, the previous email was sent incomplete. I'll try again.. On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 15:45 +1200, Simon Kitching wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:10 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Simon Kitching wrote: > > > > > legally isn't it impossible for a GPL'd project and an > > > ASF'd project to *h

RE: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:10 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Simon Kitching wrote: > > > legally isn't it impossible for a GPL'd project and an > > ASF'd project to *have* "synergies"? > > Not at all. Individual authors may contribute their own original works, and > do not give up that right. Fu

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Keeping the crosspost because the some part is relevant to the "meta" discussion around the announcement. Inline On May 6, 2005, at 11:31 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 22:34 -0400, Davanum Srinivas wrote: People working on Kaffe/Classpath are gonna advise us..see their

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 22:34 -0400, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > People working on Kaffe/Classpath are gonna advise us..see their names > on the proposal :) We (Apache Gump team) has been working with them > to make Kaffe/Classpath better for a while now > (http://brutus.apache.org/gump/kaffe/bui

Re: PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project

2005-05-06 Thread Bruce Snyder
On 5/6/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We, the sponsoring members listed below, ask that you accept the > following proposal for a new project at Apache, an effort centered > around architecting and implementing J2SE 5. +1 Bruce -- perl -e 'print unpack("u30","D0G)[EMAIL

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On May 6, 2005, at 11:12 PM, Henri Yandell wrote: On 5/6/05, Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: [snip] Suggestion: the way to encourage people to move to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list is to stop responding to questions posted here. It only encourages them. +1 My

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 23:04 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > > [snip] > > Suggestion: the way to encourage people to move to the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list is to stop responding to > questions posted here. > > It only encourages them. I'm happy to ask future questi

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Henri Yandell
On 5/6/05, Sam Ruby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > > > [snip] > > Suggestion: the way to encourage people to move to the > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list is to stop responding to > questions posted here. > > It only encourages them. +1 My new harmony folder is sad with

RE: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Simon Kitching wrote: > legally isn't it impossible for a GPL'd project and an > ASF'd project to *have* "synergies"? Not at all. Individual authors may contribute their own original works, and do not give up that right. Furthermore, we can design architectures and interface specifications that

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: [snip] Suggestion: the way to encourage people to move to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list is to stop responding to questions posted here. It only encourages them. - Sam Ruby - To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On May 6, 2005, at 10:54 PM, Simon Kitching wrote: Unfortunately, legally isn't it impossible for a GPL'd project and an ASF'd project to *have* "synergies"? Only if you narrowly define "synergy" to mean combining differently- licensed code. If GNU (who presumably have a copyright on all the Clas

Re: FAQ for Apache Harmony

2005-05-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On May 6, 2005, at 10:35 PM, Simon Kitching wrote: On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 19:23 -0700, Brian Behlendorf wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2005, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: How does SWT relate? It really doesn't. I think of it as an extra-J2SE application API. But there has been quite a bit of back and forth about

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On May 6, 2005, at 10:26 PM, Simon Kitching wrote: Hi, Can someone clarify for me why Harmony is being proposed when GNU Classpath, Kaffe and other projects are quite a long way to satisfying the goal of a Free Java environment? Is it: * That SUN is not expected to ever grant a free license to run

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
Unfortunately, legally isn't it impossible for a GPL'd project and an ASF'd project to *have* "synergies"? If GNU (who presumably have a copyright on all the Classpath code) are willing to relicense under the APL, then that would work. Same for Kaffe (though probably more difficult unless Kaffe re

RE: FAQ for Apache Harmony

2005-05-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Simon Kitching wrote: > Are there any legal implications for "extending" Java? Cannot change core language, nor deviate from implementation of the java and javax packages. org.apache packages are of no more issue than com.sun or com.ibm for their distributions. > One of the *nice* points of hav

Re: Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Simon, People working on Kaffe/Classpath are gonna advise us..see their names on the proposal :) We (Apache Gump team) has been working with them to make Kaffe/Classpath better for a while now (http://brutus.apache.org/gump/kaffe/buildLog.html). Harmony is going to increase synergies. We are work

Re: FAQ for Apache Harmony

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 19:23 -0700, Brian Behlendorf wrote: > On Fri, 6 May 2005, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > >> How does SWT relate? > > > > It really doesn't. I think of it as an extra-J2SE application API. > > > > But there has been quite a bit of back and forth about SWT and Swing so > > this

Harmony: project purpose

2005-05-06 Thread Simon Kitching
Hi, Can someone clarify for me why Harmony is being proposed when GNU Classpath, Kaffe and other projects are quite a long way to satisfying the goal of a Free Java environment? Is it: * That SUN is not expected to ever grant a free license to run the TCK for a GPL-licensed project, so the only

Re: FAQ for Apache Harmony

2005-05-06 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Fri, 6 May 2005, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: How does SWT relate? It really doesn't. I think of it as an extra-J2SE application API. But there has been quite a bit of back and forth about SWT and Swing so this seemed like a question someone might ask I think, to make it clear to the world tha

Re: PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project

2005-05-06 Thread Sam Ruby
Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Dear Incubator PMC : We, the sponsoring members listed below, ask that you accept the following proposal for a new project at Apache, an effort centered around architecting and implementing J2SE 5. +1 - Sam Ruby -

Re: PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project

2005-05-06 Thread Cliff Schmidt
On 5/6/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Incubator PMC : > > We, the sponsoring members listed below, ask that you accept the > following proposal for a new project at Apache, an effort centered > around architecting and implementing J2SE 5. +1 Cliff -

Re: FAQ for Apache Harmony

2005-05-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
On May 6, 2005, at 8:41 PM, J Aaron Farr wrote: First off, Harmony sounds like a great project. A truly compliant open source JVM would be wonderful. Greir, one question... On 5/6/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FAQ : Frequently Asked Questions > ==

RE: FAQ for Apache Harmony

2005-05-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
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Re: FAQ for Apache Harmony

2005-05-06 Thread J Aaron Farr
First off, Harmony sounds like a great project. A truly compliant open source JVM would be wonderful. Greir, one question... On 5/6/05, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > FAQ : Frequently Asked Questions > = ... > 11) Will you accept SWT if IBM offe

Re: PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project

2005-05-06 Thread Roy T. Fielding
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Re: PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project

2005-05-06 Thread Erik Hatcher
On May 6, 2005, at 7:16 PM, Danese Cooper wrote: Not that I get to vote...but I have been stumping for this for 6+ years, so... ++1 Danese On Danese's tail... +1 from me. Erik - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For

RE: PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project

2005-05-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Danese Cooper wrote: > Not that I get to vote...but I have been stumping for this > for 6+ years, so. > ++1 Expressions of support are always welcomed. As are you. :-) --- Noel - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [VOTE]: On " PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project"

2005-05-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
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Re: [VOTE]: On " PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project"

2005-05-06 Thread Davanum Srinivas
+1 from me -- dims On 5/6/05, Noel J. Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > +1 > > --- Noel > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Davanum Srini

Re: [VOTE]: On " PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project"

2005-05-06 Thread Alex Karasulu
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[VOTE]: On " PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project"

2005-05-06 Thread Noel J. Bergman
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Re: PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project

2005-05-06 Thread Danese Cooper
Not that I get to vote...but I have been stumping for this for 6+ years, so... ++1 Danese On May 6, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: +1 from me (wearing PMC hat) geir On May 6, 2005, at 6:51 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Dear Incubator PMC : We, the sponsoring members listed below, a

Re: PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project

2005-05-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
+1 from me (wearing PMC hat) geir On May 6, 2005, at 6:51 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: Dear Incubator PMC : We, the sponsoring members listed below, ask that you accept the following proposal for a new project at Apache, an effort centered around architecting and implementing J2SE 5. Note to

FAQ for Apache Harmony

2005-05-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
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PROPOSAL : Apache Harmony - J2SE 5 Project

2005-05-06 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Dear Incubator PMC : We, the sponsoring members listed below, ask that you accept the following proposal for a new project at Apache, an effort centered around architecting and implementing J2SE 5. Note to all : We have established a list for discussions to keep project-specific mail traffic