Re: [Classpathx-discuss] ClasspathX mailing list administration

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 28/02/2008, Chris Burdess <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  The function of these 4 mailing lists is rapidly disappearing into
>  history, and being smothered by a deluge of spam, so I'd like to retire
>  them if that's OK with everyone.
>
>  All the GNU JAXP development has been moved into the Classpath project
>  proper. From now on, this will also be true of GNU JAF as this module
>  is subsumed by Classpath.
>
>  The only remaining interest I've seen is in the GNU JavaMail
>  implementation. If there is sufficient interest we can keep the
>  address@hidden mailing list going, perhaps renaming it.
>  Glassfish is still not available under a free licence as far as I am
>  aware, so there is still a role for this implementation, and we still
>  have one of the only NNTP implementations of JavaMail. If anyone is
>  interested in contributing to this please let me know.
>
>  Otherwise, are there any objections to me retiring these mailing lists?
>  Or, to put it another way, is there anything any of you would still
>  like to be discuss or informed of, and how?
>
> --
>  Chris Burdess
>
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I agree some,if not all, could definitely be retired.  Maybe someone
should propose JavaMail as a JSR for J2SE 1.7 so that it can be
incorporated in Classpath too? ;) I suppose the usefulness of the list
depends on active development.  The website is sufficient to host and
promote the existing code IMO.

FWIW, my limited knowledge and a cursory glance at the website show
GlassFish as dual-licensed under the CDDL and GPL:

https://glassfish.dev.java.net/public/CDDL+GPL.html

as is NetBeans now.  I think it's even CPL with Classpath exception ;)
Both are free, but CDDL is GPL-incompatible.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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