Re: testing before a release

[Brian Jones]

Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> writes:

> I think this means one of two things. Either we wait till Per Bothner
> reports on the progress he has made for the gcc/libgcj project. Hopefully
> they come to some sort of agreement that can also be used for the Classpath
> project (having both Classpath AWT and libgcj AWT under the same license
> would be a big win). Or we make sure that all primary authors of our AWT
> implementation don't mind the license change to GPL and we change the
> copyright notice for all java.awt.* packages. If the primary authors
> (Aaron Renn, Brian Jones and Paul Fisher) mail me this is OK then I will
> change the copyright notice as soon as possible.

To make a release, we need to change the java.awt.* license headers to
indicate the code is covered by the GPL.  We're doing this because as
the decision maker for our project, RMS has requested it and at this
time not doing so would be counterproductive.

I'm attaching a emacs lisp script Paul wrote a long time ago to change
the license stuff for Japhar and it could be useful to someone now
who'd like to help by making this change.  It does look like a simple
perl or sed script could remove the "Library" part and that would be
enough.  Are you still volunteering to do this Mark?

Brian
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