Wednesday July 16, 2003

It's not about who wins

its about having a discussion, and trying to plumb the exact meaning of in-exact text. I thought we all valued calm discourse, supported by facts (and where absent, quotes). No histrionics, and no temper tantrums.
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More on Roller and the LGPL

If Paul Rivers is right (and I suspect he is, though I'd like to hear someone from the FSF clarify), then Roller has no worries. This also means that we can add back in the old mySQL JDBC driver (the 2.0xxx version) which was LGPL. The newer drivers (3.x) are GPL, which is still "right out" so far as I can tell.

Later: Andy made available the entire email which makes the whole brouhaha moot, so far as I can see.
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Re: Roller and GPL

With this news, a follow up to my earlier "survey" seemed in order...

LGPL libraries used by Roller

• Hibernate
• Prevayler
• Ekit
• Flock (is this really still used?)
• Jazzy
• JSPWiki
• Radeox

Couldn't tell...

• jython

Most of the rest where covered by Apache(like) licenses, with the exception of JUnit which is under IBM's Common Public License. The upshot, as I understand it, is that any Roller code that imports LGPL'd code (import org.hibernate.*) will need to be excised if we wish to remain under an Apache-like license.

In the discussion at Dave's and Andy's sites, there continues to be questions about what constitutes "linking". Quoting Dave Turner (licensing@fsf.org) from Andy Oliver's email:

This sort of linking falls under section 6 of the LGPL.

Once again Andy has received too vague a response from the FSF. Mr. Turner simply states that 'linking to a jar' falls under Section 6. Paul Rivers points out that Section 6 allows for some exceptions. I read the GPL license some time ago, but I'm pretty certain my brain was mush by the time I got that far (did I get that far?). What exactly is it that we need to do, Paul?
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For further reading on today's posts:

Erik's Weblog : Spell Check : [@104] Diego — the limits of MIDP . XML Publishing with Cocoon 2 , Part 2. Michael — LGPL code in jar files places some restrictions . Greg — How to Become a Java Guru . Simon — Google exercises editorial control . Chris — Great KVM solution . Andy — LGPL clarification . antenna 0.9.10 , J2ME/MIDP ant tasks. Apple reports $19 million profit , or 5 cents a share. Buy.com confirms ‘iMusic’ s...

Tuesday July 08, 2003

Re: Spot the bot

Thanks go to Edith Frost for her listing of good bots and bad bots.
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Wednesday July 02, 2003

Upgrade Roller to use Struts 1.1 Final

I think that all of us Roller developers have been coasting for awhile, but here is some impetus to upgrade Roller's use of Struts.

Update 07/03/03: Done.
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For further reading on today's posts:

Blogging Roller : Lance has moved the Roller codebase forward and has cross over into Struts 1.1 land. Hurrah! That reminds me... I really need to get the latest Roller 0.9.8-dev running on my site so that I can apply the RSS performance enhancements that I made to Roller 0.9.7 for FreeRoller.

Monday June 30, 2003

Job Opportunities

The location I'm contracting at is looking for two more Java contract developers. Email me, lance AT brainopolis.com if you are interested and live in the St. Paul MN area.

UPDATE: No Longer Hiring

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Monday June 23, 2003

Re: The new PowerMac G5

It is true. So who's gonna buy me one for my birthday (it's coming up soon)?
( Jun 23 2003, 02:57:53 PM ) News Permalink
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"Publicizing" Professional Sports

In response to this post, "Sam" hit upon one of my favorite peeves, to which I posted this comment:

I've been considering running for office, my platform: move Sports into the public sector. We'll still find a nice cushy spot for the owners so they musn't cry. We'll make all the players Federal employees (that ought to hold wages down) and drop the average ticket price. Then the opiate of the masses will belong to the masses.

All tongue-in-cheek, of course, but it has an appeal at so many levels (including Machiavellian).
( Jun 23 2003, 08:21:14 AM ) Entertainment Permalink
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