On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 09:07 +0200, Robert Penz wrote:

> >    The previous OX versions weren't DFSG free either, since they depend
> >    on Sun's closed source JavaMail API implementation, but there is a
> >    project to make Open- Xchange work on free Java tools by improving the 
> >    available tools and patching Open- Xchange:
> >    http://www.open- xchange.org/oxwiki/FreeJDKs
> >    After that project succeeds, Open- Xchange will become a 
> >    true, DFSG compliant Open Source Software.
> 
> about what timeframe are we talking here?

Depending on the development community, what i did now was just hacking
things. But if it is really made a public project things may go a lot
faster because their could be more developers and testers. But the
changes will be so big that this pretty much would mean a fork of
Open-Xchange. 

> the difference is that I don't think the community is strong enough in
> this case to successfully fork.

You never know, lot of developers might be interested when it actually
runs on GCJ, since that would make it possible to include it in most
linux distributions. 

> >    I think Netline should keep GPL as the license of Open- Xchange 
> >    Community Edition and rerelease 0.8.2 under GPL.
> 
> that would have made it easier thats correct.

Netline still wants the copyright assigned to them, so they can
relicense the work for their commercial version. This prevents the
addition of code from other projects like classpath, etc. So no matter
if the whole thing is GPL or not, their still won't be much of a
developer community, just a user community. 

- Erwin