[Pkg-ace-devel] Bug#697848: NMU of ace ?

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

> On 23/01/2013 09:08, Johnny Willemsen wrote:
>>> Agreed, but I believe Sun intent here was to ensure that
>>> standardization and implementation efforts (IDL to C++ and IIOP
>>> marshalling rules) do not get ruined by code modifications. Yes, I am
>>> interpreting.
>>>
>>> @Johnny: any opinion on this? See [1] for the context.
>>
>> The intent of Sun is to keep IIOP mandatory in the code, but as far as I
>> know we can ship the code without problems.
>
> Ok, so assuming eventually ridlc replaces TAO_IDL, we'll still have the
> IIOP issue.
>
> Any chance to have this piece of code relicensed? How can we proceed?

As far as I know the sun licenses where bought at some point by IONA, 
which was bought by Progress, which is now bought by MicroFocus. I 
talked years ago with Progress, they where willing to relicense, but 
sorting out the details would take time, which would have to be funded 
by someone. With the announced takeover by MicroFocus I think it will 
only be harder to find someone who knows the details of those very old 
licenses.

Johnny