Inclusion of GNU jaxp in libgcj

Sun Feb 8 13:47:00 GMT 2004

On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 06:40:09PM -0500, 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.
>> See the list archives for discussion of the org.xml hierarchy. It was
> eventually yanked from libgcj and placed in its own DSO for this reason.

Its no problem to put GNU JAXP into its own DSO. In fact the org.xml
stuff in libgcj is already from GNU JAXP and is licensed as
PublicDomain. Its no problem to put GNU JAXP fully into libgcj and tell
people to use -lgcj-gnu-jaxp or similar to make it available for their
apps. Its the same as we do now for the org.xml stuff. As far as I know
it was put into their own DSOs to not put external code into libgcj.so
itself.
Michael