On 5/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Joshua Nichols</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:nichoj@gentoo.org">nichoj@gentoo.org</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
robert burrell donkin wrote:<br>&gt; On 5/4/06, *Joshua Nichols* &lt;<a href="mailto:nichoj@gentoo.org">nichoj@gentoo.org</a></blockquote><div><br>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">&gt; why the emphasis on software libre?<br>&gt;<br>And I think you're reading too much into what I said. By libre, I really
<br>mean open source.</blockquote><div><br>
good :-)&nbsp;</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">&gt; why exclude ASL'd libraries from the effort?<br>ASL? Do you mean the Apache license? 
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yep&nbsp;</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In either case, I don't recall<br>saying anything about excluding anything.</blockquote>
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ASL2 is still incompatible with GPL2<br>
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free java means rebuilding the complete stack including replacements
for all ASL'd applications and libraries. so there's a little bit of
politics in the mix. <br>
</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">&gt; why not open source java?<br>&gt;<br>Uh, open source java is EXACTLY what I'm talking about :)
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good :-)<br>
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gump (<a href="http://gump.apache.org/">http://gump.apache.org/</a>) builds and tests 700 projects from
source each day. IIRC the classpath team run gump. might be able to dig
out an url if you're interested in seeing the current level of
progress. <br>
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in general, finding a way to generate EBUILDs from gump descriptors
would make available a lot of libraries and applications without
extensive effort. a maven EBUILD plugin would be even better.<br>
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apache has a lot of API implementations but they are scattered amongst
different projects. it would probably be generally a good thing if they
were more easily accessible. fixing that would also be a big gain for a
small amount of effort. <br>
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</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">In the future, be sure to reply on-list.</blockquote><div><br>
&nbsp;yeh sorry (mumbles something about gmail)<br>
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- robert<br>
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