[advanced-servlets] Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache Jakarta Regex 1.0

[Nic Ferrier <nf...@tapsellferrier.co.uk>]

>Licenses are important and can ruin a perfectly good piece 
>of software.
>Yes, there are other regex solutions out there, but there are 
>no other solutions under the GPL.

That is abolsute nonsense.

2 Java regex implementations are available from the Free Software
Federation:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/java/java-software.html



Nic Ferrier

Re: [advanced-servlets] Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache Jakarta Regex 1.0

[James Duncan Davidson <Ja...@eng.sun.com>]

>From that page, it seems that Jon is somewhat correct... both the
> packages are licensed under LGPL, which doesn't make the software
> useless like GPL (I agree 100% w/Jon on that issue), but LGPL still
> isn't as easy to repurpose/repackage as code distributed under the
> Apache/BSD license.

Actually, there are some serious problems with LGPL and Java (or other
late binding environments) due to the way the LGPL was designed for C
based libaries. If you take literally the definitions of linking and a
few other terms, you'll see what I mean.

Anyway, doesn't matter. We have an Apache Licensed version and I'm quite
happy about that.

-- 
james.davidson@sun.com

Re: [advanced-servlets] Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache Jakarta Regex 1.0

[Serge Knystautas <se...@lokitech.com>]

Nic Ferrier wrote:
> 
> >Licenses are important and can ruin a perfectly good piece
> >of software.
> >Yes, there are other regex solutions out there, but there are
> >no other solutions under the GPL.
> 
> That is abolsute nonsense.
> 
> 2 Java regex implementations are available from the Free Software
> Federation:
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/java/java-software.html