Re: RE: GUI for Ant [from the author]

[l2...@netcourrier.com]

Hello,

I'm the author of AntHill. AFAIK, there is no release of AntHill yet (even in alpha beta release candidate).

I followed all your posts and I learnt a lot about licensing issue I was not aware of.

So I plan to come out with a GUI to start a build released under the APL to be compatible with Ant license.

Thanks,

Frederic Lavigne, fred@L2FProd.com

>-----Message d'origine-----
>Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 18:26:41 +1000
>A: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org
>De: Peter Donald <do...@mad.scientist.com>
>Sujet: RE: GUI for Ant
>
>At 06:27  25/9/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>Conor -
>>
>>This "incompatible license" issue has come up in a lot of different areas.
>>Is it due to people just randomly choosing an open source license or are
>>there significant differences that other authors are specifically interested
>>in?
>
>Go have a look at GNU pages re GPL and LGPL application to java. Because of
>javas linking modle GPL == LGPL with java. That is the reason why no LGPL
>GNU java libraries exist. All GNU libraries exist under a LGPL license with
>modifications. 
>
>As to why authors choose a different license it is because they want
>different freedoms. With BSD based libraries (which Apache is) you are free
>to do anything with library as long as you acknowledge "This contains code
>form Apache Software Organisation" - GNU saids you are free to do anything
>with code as long as you release modifications to the people you distribute
>the product to. So if you give Bob a binary you have to also give bob
>source if he asks for it.
>
>Now projects like Anhill and jBoss have authours who release under the GPL.
>However as the authors choose to brake the license themselves (Anthill will
>include ant or use ant which brakes GPL and jBoss uses JMX and other
>libraries) they are really not doing the GPL any good. RMS (one of the main
>people who supports free software) considers projects like Anthill and
>jBoss to be one of the greatest threat to GPL. Ignorance or ignoring legal
>implications devalues the GPL as a commoditity etc and he has spoken out
>against many such projects a lot recently.
>
>So while Anthill is not GPL (cause if it was it couldn't use Ant) it can
>never be mixed with APL stuff (or any other non-GPL stuff). 
>
>So while the project may turn out decent I will put every effort into
>discouraging use of it as it violates the GPL and is technically not legal.
>
>
>Cheers,
>
>Pete
>
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Frederic Lavigne, fred@L2FProd.com
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Re: RE: GUI for Ant [from the author]

[Peter Donald <do...@mad.scientist.com>]

At 09:32  26/9/00 +0200, you wrote:
>
>Hello,
>
>I'm the author of AntHill. AFAIK, there is no release of AntHill yet (even
in alpha beta release candidate).
>
>I followed all your posts and I learnt a lot about licensing issue I was
not aware of.
>
>So I plan to come out with a GUI to start a build released under the APL
to be compatible with Ant license.

Great to hear :P !

Cheers,

Pete

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