Re: Re: Re: Re: AW: License proposal (Summary)

"Diez B. Roggisch" <[email protected]> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 13:48:49 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.enhydra.barracuda.general
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> My question is not about the name, but about the
> integrity you talked bout. My question assumed that
> someone may only use part of the Barracuda, such as
> the event part. So other components can be removed
> from Barracuda package. It is reasonable to do that,
> but that may effect the integrity you talked about.

INHO thats more a technical than a legal issue - nobody can force you to use 
certain aspects of a library. And if the components are orthogonal and thus 
separable, you can split the lib into parts. Think of a static linked binary 
made with C - the linker will only incorporate the code related to the 
actually used symbols - not more. Regardless of what license the lib has.

Barracuda has quite suceeded in beeing orthogonal for the main parts - 
however, the saved few hundered kbs of jarred code aren't worth the hassle in 
times where desktop machines are shipped with half a gig of mem. 


Diez
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