Re: OSGi 5 Implementation

"puntogil@xxxxxxxxx" <puntogil@xxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 11 Nov 2013 12:02:07 +0100



    Il 11/11/2013 11:35, Manuel Faux ha
      scritto:

    
      On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 11:07:55 +0100
"puntogil@xxxxxxxxx" <puntogil@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


        Il 11/11/2013 10:53, Mikolaj Izdebski ha scritto:

        
          On 11/09/2013 03:25 PM, Manuel Faux wrote:

          
            I'm trying to build NetBeans 7.4 under Fedora, which requires an
OSGi 5 specification. NetBeans originally ships the OSGi Alliance's
specification, whose license is not compatible with Fedora, as far
as I know (http://www.osgi.org/Download/Release5?info=nothanks).

          
          This license is clearly non-free.

        
      The strange thing is, that the pre-download information (the link
above) shows a quite restrictive license, but when you actually
download the file, the LICENSE file in the jar file mentions Apache
License 2.0.


            Is there any OSGi 5 implementation already in Fedora's repos I can
use for that purpose? All packages I checked so far only support
OSGi 4 (Eclipse Equinox, JBoss OSGi, Apache Felix).

          
          Not that I know.


            I found Knopflerfish, which is a OSGi 5 platform licensed under BSD
license, which would be compatible to Fedora
(http://www.knopflerfish.org/). Unfortunately this package does
not yet exist for Fedora. Building this package, would be kind of
a plan B.

          
          Knopflerfish depends on code from OSGi Alliance [1], so if that
code is non-free then packaging Knopflerfish itself won't solve the
problem.

        
        the main knopflerfish module no, maybe other sub-modules, depend on 
ee.minimum.jar

      
      I'm not so deep into OSGi frameworks, but basically we just need the
framework, not even the complete service platform. To build this
framework, the ee.minimum.jar is required. Is this the critical part
    
    the only build dep required for build this framework is
    objectweb-asm 3.x

    (the rest of the build deps are listed as comment in my spec file https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=874472)

    before do this assertion should be require
    
    to know what you are talking about...

    but i think i don't want upgrade K to 5.0.0 (OSGi R5 ri/apis,
    already built on my system), the previous release are requires for
    build an use some https://github.com/ops4j/ libraries (R4 and R5 are
    not compatible)

    i apologized if my comment seem a bit hard

    regards
    
    
      depending on OSGi Alliance licensed code? If yes, how is it ever
possible to get an OSGi 5 framework into a FOSS product?


          [1]
https://knopflerfish.org/svn/knopflerfish.org/trunk/osgi/ee/ee.minimum.jar


        regards

      
      Manuel

    
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