Donating code to Kaffe

[Tim Wilkinson]

I missed a couple of points:

1. We ask donors of significant code to sign a statement which essentially
says they not encorporating anyone elses technology (specifically Sun's)
into Kaffe.

2. We do *NOT* require copyright to be assigned to us - though obviously we
need the source be made available under an Open Source license.

Regards
Tim

Tim Wilkinson wrote:

> All,
>
> I noticed this comment on the list recently about donating code to Kaffe
> v. Classpath:
>
> > We're different in that Kaffe's libraries are
> >
> > a) copyright Transvirtual - they can sell them under separate licenses
>
> > b) licensed publicly as GPL - this means you aren't legally allowed to
>
> >    execute proprietary software with their libraries.
>
> First, we don't sell *ANY* code we don't write - the Kaffe Desktop is a
> different source base to Kaffe Custom - we do propogate code from the
> Custom edition to the Desktop, but not vice-versa.  If you donate code
> to Kaffe we won't turn around and sell it - if we wanted to sell that
> code we'd license if from you (by one off purchase or a per-copy fee).
>
> Second, we distribute Kaffe under the GPL to prevent other companies
> from taking our product and embedded it into their products and making
> money off them - if we let them do that we'd go out of business and
> wouldn't be able to support either version of Kaffe.  This does not
> prevent you from using Kaffe to run proprietary software - we'd like you
> to make your software open source too but that's up to you.
>
> If anyone has any other questions about Kaffe do drop me a line -
> tim at transvirtual.com
>
> Regards
> Tim
>
> --
>   Tim Wilkinson                         Tel:     +1 510 704 1660
>   Transvirtual Technologies, Inc.,      Fax:     +1 510 704 1893
>   Berkeley, CA, USA.                    Email:   tim at transvirtual.com



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  Tim Wilkinson                         Tel:     +1 510 704 1660
  Transvirtual Technologies, Inc.,      Fax:     +1 510 704 1893
  Berkeley, CA, USA.                    Email:   tim at transvirtual.com