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From: | Dalibor Topic |
Subject: | Re: [Classpathx-discuss] javax.comm |
Date: | Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:10:42 +0100 |
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Hi Nic, Nic Ferrier wrote:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D8yvind?= Harboe <address@hidden> writes:On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:23, Dalibor Topic wrote:Øyvind Harboe wrote:Is any work being done on adding javax.comm to GNU Classpathx? For now I'm using a commercial javax.comm library, but for debugging purposes it would have been nice to have the source :-) I've yet to try this library. http://www.rxtx.orgI wanted to pull that one into kaffe, but had to stop due to doing too many things simultaneously, i.e. time constraints ;)I'm a GCJ user myself, but as far as I have understood, Kaffe uses GNU Classpath and Classpathx. Hence, if rxtx.org's stuff goes into GNU Classpathx, both GCJ and Kaffe would benefit.I'd be happy for rxtx to find a home here as long as it can be licenced GPL+exception. Has anyone approached the project leader?
Not on relicensing it and contributing it to the FSF, as we don't need that for kaffe. Kaffe is not a FSF project, and doesn't require copyright assignment. It just needs the code to be licensed in a GPL compatible manner.
Here's how I see kaffe's role: it can be used a simple (as in no buerocratical overhead) vehicle to try free implementations out, smooth the edges, and then merge them into Classpath/ClasspathX, which is what we are doing with GNU regex, for example, as long as the copyright assignment issues for that code to go into GNU Classpath aren't finished ;)
But of course, I would most heartily support an effort to adopt rxtx into the huge GNU java family for everyone's mutula benefit, as that would reduce my own workload with a potential merge ;)
cheers, dalibor topic
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