License infringement about blaze

[jjlauer]

@xafero I'm actually pretty careful about this stuff, so I reviewed your claim tonight. Yes, it does look like I borrowed some lines of code for compiling a kotlin file from your project (in KotlinCompiler.java). No, everything else in blaze and blaze-kotlin is my own work that I spent quite a bit of time on and its a bold claim to make some sort of leap that the entire concept of compiling kotlin is your idea. I know I used numerous unit tests from kotlin itself to figure out how to get it to work for my needs. I have no goal of being a JSR 232 engine for Kotlin -- and it doesn't even work with the latest kotlin. I'm happy to rewrite the few lines of code and/or add an attribution at the top.

I was curious about your own work though since you seem on top of this. Your https://github.com/xafero/dynjc project says its based on https://java.net/projects/scripting/sources/svn/show/trunk/engines/java which uses the Sun Micro license and actually you're probably violating their terms by relicensing it as AGPL. I could make the same claim as you did with mine, but if we're both reasonable folks we both know its somewhat trivial in the grand scheme of things.

[xafero]

Just for clarification:

• It is already a violation regardless of the amount of code (Oracle sues Google for 37 files - where is the line here?)
• I did not "boldly claim" something about the "entire concept", that's nonsense
• The code included the library I developed as if it were LGPL ...!
• My intention by figuring out how to use Kotlin was to give something to the community, not to work for a company or some person copying my code and therefore knowledge - although maybe later they are changing enough

Could you swear that you never:

• looked at any line of a project which license you don't agree with ("No, everything else in blaze")
• ignore someone's rights because you think it's "somewhat trivial"
  ?

[jjlauer]

@xafero I already had a "feature_kotlin1" branch for supporting Kotlin v1 final that I started last month. Just finished it up and merged it in. New code is 100% based on Kotlin unit tests -- and Kotlin is apache licensed, btw.

[xafero]

The 'invalid' is not nice, and it's possible to sublicense; just inform yourself: http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html