Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of ActiveBPEL - savannah.nongnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

As we have not had a response from you, we have deleted your project
from the pending queue.  If you would still like to have your project
hosted at Savannah, please re-submit it for evaluation.

Regards,

-- 
Sylvain


On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:36:36PM +0200, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in 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/
> 
> Please provide us with more information about this point.
> 
> 
> Moreover, you used a lot of dependencies that are not compatible with
> the GNU GPL. Since your code is released under the GNU GPL, you cannot
> legally distribute your application. You may want to consider adding
> exceptions as described at:
> http://gnu.april.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncompatibleLibs or
> switch to a more liberal license such as MIT / modified BSD.
> 
> 
> Licensing under the "GNU GPL v2 only" is also problematic.  Would you
> please agree to license under the "GNU GPL v2 or later"?
> 
> The reason for this is that when we publish GPL v3, it will be
> important for all GPL-covered programs to advance to GPL v3.  If you
> don't put this in the files now, the only way to port your program to
> GPL v3 would be to ask each and every copyright holder, and that may
> be very difficult.
> 
> We can explain the issue in more detail if you wish.  If you have
> concerns about "GNU GPL v2 or later", We'd be happy to address them
> too.
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 08:46:54AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> > A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> > This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> > 
> > 
> > Jim Menard <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> > License: gpl
> > Other License: 
> > Package: ActiveBPEL
> > System name: activebpel
> > Type: non-GNU
> > 
> > Description:
> > The ActiveBPEL engine is a runtime environment capable of executing process 
> > definitions created to the Business Process Execution Language for Web 
> > Services (BPEL4WS, or just BPEL) 1.1 specifications. The ActiveBPEL engine 
> > is released under the GPL.
> > 
> > BPEL is an XML language for describing Web service-based business 
> > processes. It relies on SOAP, WSDL, and related technologies.
> > 
> > The ActiveBPEL Engine is written in Java and runs within a Web/application 
> > server. It uses Axis and other SOAP/WSDL/XML libraries. The current version 
> > has been tested and runs with Tomcat 5.X.
> > 
> > For downloads (including source), please visit 
> > http://www.activebpel.org/download/index.html.
> > 
> > Other Software Required:
> > The file NOTICE.txt that comes with the source code contains a list of 
> > dependencies. All dependencies are fulfilled (jar files come with the 
> > source) except for Tomcat. Projects used by ActiveBPEL (and included): 
> > Apache projects such as XML4J, Jakarta Commons Logging, Jakarta Commons 
> > Discovery, AXIS; Jaxen; Castor; WSDL4J; Work Manager for Application 
> > Servers.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Sylvain
> 
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Sylvain