Re: gnujaxp build system (was: Re: Fw: [Classpathx-xml] What is the status of gnujaxp?)

Dalibor Topic <[email protected]> writes:

> --- Arnaud Vandyck <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Nic Ferrier <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Dalibor Topic <[email protected]> writes:
> > > > --- Arnaud Vandyck <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > > Why don't you base the build system on jakarta-ant? Apache
> > > > > License is also free software, isn't it?
> > > >
> > > > Kind of, but GPL incompatible according to the FSF.
> >
> > So apache httpd (Apache License) should also be in contrib? But it's
> > not.
> 
> I'm sorry, I wasn't very clear.
> 
> Apache, and other ASF licensed software is free software, just like GPL-ed
> software. But unfortunately, the two licenses are incompatible according to the
> FSF, so a GPL'd project can't use code from a ASF licensed one.

This doesn't apply to ant scripts though, because it's just a text
file, not a linked program.

The reason the GNU java projects don't distribute ant scripts
generally is because most of us don't like ANT. (Per Bothner's Kawa
system comes with an ANT script).


Nic