Inclusion of GNU jaxp in libgcj

Sun Feb 8 06:52:00 GMT 2004

On Sat, 2004年02月07日 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.
-- 
Brian Jones <cbj@gnu.org>
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