Good idea about OpenJDK BTW... maybe I'll hack a little Maven module
based on OpenJDK with needed interfaces and post on on ObjectStyle.
Then we can have it as a "provided" (i.e. not bundled) dependency for
cayenne-jdk15-unpublished.
Let me float that on legal-discuss.
Andrus
On Sep 29, 2008, at 4:41 AM, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> On 28/09/2008, at 9:00 AM, Andrus Adamchik wrote:
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>> This will exclude 32-bit Mac owners from the dev process (I do have
>> 1 such laptop in my company, Ari probably has a few, etc...). So
>> how do we make it build on 1.5 (everything except for the 1.6
>> module of course). Here is one idea: a developer may extract the
>> new JDBC 4 interfaces from Java 1.6 (we can provide a little script
>> to do that), and build a small extension jar and drop it in the lib/
>> ext of JDK 1.5. That and also we will publish 1.6 snapshots for
>> downstream dependents (such as cayenne-server and cayenne-client).
>>
>> Thoughts on that? Maybe there are better ideas (and I may need to
>> vet this little hack with Apache legal).
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> It may be easier to do this against OpenJDK rather than Java 6,
> since the licensing is much simpler. But still, we bump into GPL
> licensing of OpenJDK. The question: "is this code linked to ours"
> such that it infects Cayenne code with the GPL license? Clearly
> implementing an interface doesn't cause a problem (since we do that
> for dozens of JRE interfaces) but can we write stubs for the
> interface itself and bundle that without causing a problem? The
> logical answer is that we are including no more intellectual
> property than simply implementing the interface, but law is so
> rarely that logical.
>
> And of course the Java 6 problem for Mac users is not just 32 bit
> machines, but also 64 bit PPC machines. I can't wait until Apple
> just give up partially supporting Java and either Sun or the open
> source community take it over to do it properly.
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> Ari Maniatis
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