Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of ActiveBPEL - savannah.nongnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

You must determine whether your project can run on a Free
Software Java suite (see http://www.gnu.org/software/java/ for more
information).  

We recommend you to test your project against GCJ+Classpath, and
ensure that your Java code runs on this Free Software Java suite.

GCJ is the GNU Compiler for Java, part of the GCC (GNU Compiler
Collection).  The Classpath project aims to develop a free and
portable implementation of the Java API (the classes in the 'java'
package).
More information at http://gcc.gnu.org and
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/

Please provide us with more information about this point.


Moreover, you used a lot of dependencies that are not compatible with
the GNU GPL. Since your code is released under the GNU GPL, you cannot
legally distribute your application. You may want to consider adding
exceptions as described at:
http://gnu.april.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs or
switch to a more liberal license such as MIT / modified BSD.


Licensing under the "GNU GPL v2 only" is also problematic.  Would you
please agree to license under the "GNU GPL v2 or later"?

The reason for this is that when we publish GPL v3, it will be
important for all GPL-covered programs to advance to GPL v3.  If you
don't put this in the files now, the only way to port your program to
GPL v3 would be to ask each and every copyright holder, and that may
be very difficult.

We can explain the issue in more detail if you wish.  If you have
concerns about "GNU GPL v2 or later", We'd be happy to address them
too.

-- 
Sylvain


On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 08:46:54AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> Jim Menard <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: ActiveBPEL
> System name: activebpel
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> The ActiveBPEL engine is a runtime environment capable of executing process 
> definitions created to the Business Process Execution Language for Web 
> Services (BPEL4WS, or just BPEL) 1.1 specifications. The ActiveBPEL engine is 
> released under the GPL.
> 
> BPEL is an XML language for describing Web service-based business processes. 
> It relies on SOAP, WSDL, and related technologies.
> 
> The ActiveBPEL Engine is written in Java and runs within a Web/application 
> server. It uses Axis and other SOAP/WSDL/XML libraries. The current version 
> has been tested and runs with Tomcat 5.X.
> 
> For downloads (including source), please visit 
> http://www.activebpel.org/download/index.html.
> 
> Other Software Required:
> The file NOTICE.txt that comes with the source code contains a list of 
> dependencies. All dependencies are fulfilled (jar files come with the source) 
> except for Tomcat. Projects used by ActiveBPEL (and included): Apache 
> projects such as XML4J, Jakarta Commons Logging, Jakarta Commons Discovery, 
> AXIS; Jaxen; Castor; WSDL4J; Work Manager for Application Servers.


-- 
Sylvain