Hi Patrick, On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 13:11 +0000, theUser BL wrote: > Have a look at > http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=18036&tstart=0 > there I have written a qustion at Mark and other developers. > > It would be nice and I would be happy, if you answer it. Seems you need to have to register for some sort of account on that site to post there, but feel free to quote or redistribute my response if you want. I cannot possibly hope to speak for all GNU Classpath developers since there are just too many and GNU Classpath is really a community of communities, lots of individuals, organizations and projects working together for various reasons. But I think you are right that we are pretty flexible and accommodating. The common theme in the last 8 years has been cooperation and respect for each others work. This also extends to licenses, anything upward compatible with the GPL seems fine with the community. So you are also right that either the GNU Classpath license, GPL plus some exception, GPLv2 or v3, LGPL, BSD or MIT/X would all encourage cooperation between groups. Non-GPL compatible licenses seem to fragment the community and nobody wants to see an incompatible, proprietary fork of java. Sun has in the past chosen to use and create licenses like SISSL and CDDL, which some say are explicitly designed to be GPL-incompatible so as to not work together with the larger GNU/Linux community. Lets hope they are sincere in wanting to work with the existing communities. As soon as there is code available under a friendly license I am sure we will see some sort of cooperation between the communities. But no code is available atm, no license has been chosen and it isn't clear whether Sun needs or wants help from the community with code that we can provide for them to create a large free software platform together. Cheers, Mark
