From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ovidiu Predescu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] XSLT-process 2.2 available Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 21:42:25 -0800 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042954977 1262 80.91.224.249 (19 Jan 2003 05:42:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 05:42:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Kevin A. Burton burtonator, emacs-devel@gnu.org" Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18a8ES-0000KE-00 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 06:42:56 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18a8Oh-0004Mu-00 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 06:53:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18a8F4-0003jy-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:43:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18a8EW-000348-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:43:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18a8EE-0002Fs-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:42:45 -0500 Original-Received: from sccrmhc01.attbi.com ([204.127.202.61]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18a8E1-0001Qb-00; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 00:42:29 -0500 Original-Received: from apache.org (12-234-84-6.client.attbi.com[12.234.84.6]) by sccrmhc01.attbi.com (sccrmhc01) with SMTP id <2003011905422500100hn1c3e>; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 05:42:25 +0000 Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10865 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10865 Richard, On Friday, Jan 17, 2003, at 16:47 US/Pacific, Richard Stallman wrote: > I would bet good money that Xalan will not compile on GCJ. It > might require some modifications to get working. I wanted to > spend some time documenting the difference between GCJ and JDK 1.4 > and will do that in a month or so when I port over NewsMonster. > > Is anyone interested in trying Xalan in GCJ and seeing if it does work? > > We can't consider XSLT-process as a legitimate part of the free > software world if it needs JDK to run. Fixing this ought to be the > highest priority. You also have to realize XSLT-process depends on open-source software, but not free-software. Xalan and Saxon are not licensed under L/GPL, but under their own open-source licenses. JDK is just one part of the story, the other is composed of Xalan, Saxon, and other XML related libraries used by XSLT-process which have their own licenses. XSLT-process can download these non-GPL libraries when it first runs, to keep the package small and completely free-software. Or if their license is not a problem, we can just leave things as they are now. What do you think? Best regards, -- Ovidiu Predescu http://www.google.com/search?btnI=&q=ovidiu (I'm feeling lucky)