Re: javax.comm

Hi Nic,

Nic Ferrier wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D8yvind?= Harboe <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 15:23, Dalibor Topic wrote:
>>
>>>Øyvind Harboe wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is any work being done on adding javax.comm to GNU Classpathx?
>>>>
>>>>For now I'm using a commercial javax.comm library, but for debugging
>>>>purposes it would have been nice to have the source :-)
>>>>
>>>>I've yet to try this library.
>>>>
>>>>http://www.rxtx.org
>>>
>>>I wanted to pull that one into kaffe, but had to stop due to doing too 
>>>many things simultaneously, i.e. time constraints ;)
>>
>>I'm a GCJ user myself, but as far as I have understood, Kaffe uses GNU
>>Classpath and Classpathx. Hence, if rxtx.org's stuff goes into GNU
>>Classpathx, both GCJ and Kaffe would benefit.
> 
> 
> I'd be happy for rxtx to find a home here as long as it can be
> licenced GPL+exception.
> 
> Has anyone approached the project leader?

Not on relicensing it and contributing it to the FSF, as we don't need 
that for kaffe. Kaffe is not a FSF project, and doesn't require 
copyright assignment. It just needs the code to be licensed in a GPL 
compatible manner.

Here's how I see kaffe's role: it can be used a simple (as in no 
buerocratical overhead) vehicle to try free implementations out, smooth 
the edges, and then merge them into Classpath/ClasspathX, which is what 
we are doing with GNU regex, for example, as long as the copyright 
assignment issues for that code to go into GNU Classpath aren't finished ;)

But of course, I would most heartily support an effort to adopt rxtx 
into the huge GNU java family for everyone's mutula benefit, as that 
would reduce my own workload with a potential merge ;)

cheers,
dalibor topic