[Classpathx-discuss] [Etienne Gagnon] Bug#251884: libgnujaxp-java: New classpath exception (to GPL) should be used to elimnate ambiguities

[Arnaud Vandyck]

Hi all,

I got a bug report against the license of gnujaxp.

I think there are two ways of resolving the issue:

1° change the license to LGPL;
2° reword GPL+linking exception with the one from classpath

Comments?

Thanks, cheers,

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> Bug#251884: libgnujaxp-java: New classpath exception (to GPL)	should be used to elimnate ambiguities
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> Date: 
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> Mon, 31 May 2004 10:13:17 -0400
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> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040414	Debian/1.6-5
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> Package: libgnujaxp-java
> Version: 0.0.cvs20040416-4
> Severity: normal
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> Hi,
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> The exception to the terms of the GNU GPL used by libgnujaxp-java is
> the old wording of the GNU Classpath exception.  This old wording was
> debated on the Classpath mailing-list, and it was agreed that it was
> pretty ambiguous.  A new text was agreed upon, which is now used by
> projects like GNU Classpath and libgcj (GNU Compiler for Java
> library).
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> Please forward upstream a request to "clarify" license terms by using
> the text at:
>    http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html
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> Thanks!
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> Etienne
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> Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D.             http://www.info.uqam.ca/~egagnon/
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> Versions of packages libgnujaxp-java depends on:
> ii  java2-runtime-equivs [ 1.0               Dummy package to fulfil package de
> ii  kaffe [java1-runtime]  2:1.1.4-3         A JVM to run Java bytecode
> ii  libgnujaxp-jni         0.0.cvs20040416-4 native bindings for gnujaxp to lib
> ii  sablevm [java1-runtime 1.1.3-1           Free implementation of Java Virtua
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