Re: Help needed to persuade apaches about the Classpath license.

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Meskauskas Audrius wrote:
> E...  that exactly do you mean? How can I submit them a patch, calling 
> classes that are not part
> of the Geronimo project? How would they compile such a contribution? 

I am sorry for being unclear. I meant something like checking geronimo 
out of CVS, adding the GNU Classpath CORBA classes to it, and putting 
the resulting tarball online somewhere for geronimo developers & general 
public to peek at.

You don't have to be a member of the Geronimo project to do that, you 
patch things up, and put the tarball on your site, and invite geronimo 
developers to try it out.

> Another problem is
> that like all our project,
> CORBA is intended to be operated via standard public classes, not via 
> implementation specific
> ones. The alternative CORBA implementation is plugged in just using 
> property file.

Yeah. I have no idea how geronimo uses CORBA and if that requires 
messing with Sun's implementation. Maybe they try to work around Sun's 
bugs. I have not yet looked at Geronimo code myself, so my suggestion 
above might not work at all, for example.

My thought was based on the observation that many Apache developers see 
pragmatism as one of their defining characteristics. Persuading such 
developers might be easier with a patched up tarball of geronimo that 
includes GNU Classpath's CORBA implementation, than by debating how 
licensing works.

Otoh, it may turn out to be a lot of work: as I said, I have not looked 
at what Geronimo does with CORBA, so take my proposal with the 
obligatory salt mine. ;)

cheers,
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