[Classpathx-discuss] Re: servlet code

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi (I have CCed address@hidden),

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 01:39:08PM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> On www.klomp.org there is a GNU implementation of the servlet API, and
> from the naming it would appear it part of (or intended to be part of)
> Classpath.  However, it doesn't seem to be in the Classpath CVS tree.
> It is copyright Free Software Foundation.  The license is LGPL.
I should remove that old version. Paul has a more up to date version
at <http://www.euronet.nl/~pauls/java/servlet/>. (but see below)

> I'm working on some servlet-related code, and I'm wondering what to
> do.  First, we we want javax.servlet (and javax.jsp) in libjava?
> I would say yes - it makes things easier, and we already have
> javax.naming in there.
To be honest I think that libjava is already very big.

> Second question is: Can/should we use the code on klomp.org?  It seems
> like that would make sense - but the licensing needs to be changed to
> that of libgcj (and now also classpath).  If the code were part of
> Classpath, we can do that as part of the deal with the FSF.  But I
> don't know if the code is technically part of Classpath if it has not
> been checked in.  If the authors (who I've cc'd) agree, there should
> be no problem, though the FSF may need a copyright assignment.
Paul and I have assigned copyright to the FSF, they should have our
papers on record. We wanted to include it in Classpath but that never
happened. We were both no longer working on Servlet related projects
and the javax.servlet/jsp packages are only part of the Enterprise
Java libraries so they didn't fit in with the "real" standard library
classes of Classpath.

But since then Nick Ferrier set up the classpathx project and the code
is now part of that project. <http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/classpathx/>
I think the best approach would be to work together with the ClasspathX
people and make sure that the included libraries can also be compiled with
gcj to shared libraries.

Cheers,

Mark
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