Re: [Savannah-hackers] Re: Savannah Account Registration

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hello,

On Thu, Aug 26, Nicola Onose wrote:
> Hello
> 
> I have a project I am working on with my professor and we 
> were thinking of releasing as free software. I don't know 
> yet if there are any impediments.
> 
> But the project is written in Java and it uses JavaCC. Both 
> Sun JDK and JavaCC are distributed under the Sun license. 
> Could this be an obstacle to hosting our project on 
> Savannah?

Savannah hosts code that is compatible with the GNU GPL, and that do
not rely on proprietary (non-free) software.

JavaCC is actually released under the modified BSD license, which is
free.

The Sun SDK, however, is not. To host your project at Savannah, you
must determine whether your project can run on a Free Software Java
suite (see http://www.gnu.org/software/java/ for more information).

We recommend you to test your project against GCJ+Classpath, and
ensure that your Java code runs on this Free Software Java suite.

GCJ is the GNU Compiler for Java, part of the GCC (GNU Compiler
Collection).  The Classpath project aims to develop a free and
portable implementation of the Java API (the classes in the 'java'
package).

More information at http://gcc.gnu.org and
http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/

See also "Free But Shackled" at
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html for more information on
this policy.


Feel free to contact us if you need more information,

-- 
Sylvain