From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15391 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2006 17:14:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 15383 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Feb 2006 17:14:38 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.omnis.com (HELO smtp.omnis.com) (216.239.128.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:14:36 +0000 Received: from [10.3.2.11] (unknown [208.63.111.51]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D9F514080FA; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:14:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <43F4B2F9.9090801@dellroad.org> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:14:00 -0000 From: Archie Cobbs User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stuart Ballard Cc: GNU Classpath , mauve-discuss@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Mauve license References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact mauve-discuss-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: mauve-discuss-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-q1/txt/msg00030.txt.bz2 Stuart Ballard wrote: > Harmony hackers get to see that Classpath hackers aren't inflexible > GPL-zealots, and both groups of hackers get used to working together > on a project that benefits both. This Apache/Harmony thing vs. Claspath/GPL debate is just so tempting.. :-) But let's talk practicalities.. here's a simple thing I don't understand. What exactly prevents Harmony from using Mauve as a test suite? Would Apache want to create it's own copy of Mauve and check that into SVN? That seems like a bad idea -- i.e, creating a "code fork". So then if Apache only wants to run Mauve tests, what impact does Mauve being GPL have? Why can Apache folks just download Mauve and run it, the same way Classpath hackers do? Mauve is its own self-contained project. As to the issue of converting Mauve to JUnit, that's surely a lot of work any way you slice it, and in any case that seems like an orthogonal issue. -Archie __________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * CTO, Awarix * http://www.awarix.com