Re: SAX inclusion in libgcj

[Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 20:57, Nic Ferrier wrote:
> Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:
> 
> > I think that is a good idea and if the copyright is assigned to the FSF
> > there should be no problem at all with integrating it. Except for
> > actually doing it which always takes more time than is available :) But
> > I thought that Gnu Jaxp was still in beta. Is there an official release
> > already? Then it would certainly make sense in pull this in.
> 
> Why would we need a copyright assignment? It's just a downstream
> provider isn't it?

Normally all code in the main Classpath distribution (and this is true
for all FSF projects) is only accepted when the copyright is assigned to
the FSF. Since I thought GNU JAXP was a GNU project I thought this was
already the case. There are of course exceptions, but since the XML
classes will probably be integrated tightly with other core packages
such as e.g. java.util.prefs and java.util.logging (only in Classpath at
the moment) and the new java.beans framework also has an XML storage, it
would be nice to keep all the copyright assigned to the FSF.

See also:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/doc/hacking.html#SEC2

> GNUJAXP is ready for release. It's simply about when I have the time
> to make the announcement and change the webpage, etc...

OK, great! I will wait for the official announcement then. Someone on
the kaffe mailinglist just emailed that it already seems to work nicely
with kaffe.

Cheers,

Mark