Inclusion of GNU jaxp in libgcj

[Michael Koch]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:52:09AM -0500, C. Brian Jones wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-02-07 at 18:40, Jeff Sturm wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Michael Koch wrote:
> > > I thought including GNU jaxp in libgcj. Its part of the of the
> > > classpath-x project. Its licensed under GPL with the same exceptional
> > > clause that libgcj has with the exception of the DOM interface
> > > sources (which are subject instead to the W3C license) and the
> > > SAX2 r2pre2 files (which are in the public domain). No file I
> > > investigated showed any assigned copyright notice to FSF. All copyright
> > > notices of files under GPL contain personal names of the authors.
> > 
> > In my opinion, adding any additional extension libraries to libgcj is a
> > mistake at least until binary compatibility is in place.  Besides
> > bloating the library, it would become impossible for any binaries
> > depending on libgcj to link in their own version of jaxp, due to the
> > duplicate class registration.
> 
> The GNU Java system, from compiler to execution environment should
> contain some level of compatibility with Sun's defacto standard with
> regards to the APIs available.  Whether this happens in gcc or in some
> packaging effort doesn't really matter to me.
> 
> Classpath-x is an official GNU project using the same license as
> Classpath where possible.  I think all the usual assignment stuff also
> takes place with regards to contributions.

Yeah, all files contain copyright to several people, not FSF yet.


Michael