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Harmony vs. GNU Classpath/Kaffe/gcj?

Posted May 19, 2006 16:37 UTC (Fri) by mjw (subscriber, #16740)
In reply to: Harmony vs. Classpath/Kaffe/gcj? by stevenj
Parent article: Harmony project to get a Swing/AWT implementation

The following GNU Classpath thread probably explains it: Where's the love?

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Please tell me there are better reasons than this....

Posted May 19, 2006 17:58 UTC (Fri) by stevenj (guest, #421) [Link]

Looking at that thread, and also reading the threads Re: classpath on the Harmony mailing list when the project started in 2005, it seems that their main reasons for re-inventing the wheel are:

Not Invented Here — they don't like working under the auspices of the FSF.
Vague concerns about the Classpath license being "viral" — despite the fact that it is GPL with an explicit exception allowing linking to proprietary code.

Please, someone tell me that I misread the Harmony developers' discussion, and that there is a better reason that is not this stupid.

Please tell me there are better reasons than this....

Posted May 19, 2006 19:45 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

As I understand it, they don't like working under *anyone's* auspices but their own, for no particularly clear reason.

Really extreme NIH.

Please tell me there are better reasons than this....

Posted May 19, 2006 20:24 UTC (Fri) by robilad (guest, #27163) [Link]

It really is this stupid.

Otoh, GPL3 will fix that at least in one direction, so it's less of a big deal anymore.