Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 10:01:04 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM> To: sprice@hiwaay.net Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@lojic.com, dwilde1@thuntek.net Subject: Re: A BSD-licensed JIT (was Re: Development Projects) Message-ID: <199903271801.KAA10685@osprey.grizzly.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903271116530.22203-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> (message from Steve Price on Sat, 27 Mar 1999 11:47:20 -0600 (CST)) References: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903271116530.22203-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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># What is the importance of getting a JIT under a BSD-license? > >This is a flamebait question intended to draw me into yet another >licensing war, but I'll bite long enough to say this. No it is not! Take the question at face value. I do a lot of server-side Java development and see FreeBSD as an excellent platform for such applications once the JVM can compete with the Solaris JVM. I am no fan of the GPL and all open source software I have release is under a BSD-style license. Given that FreeBSD is fairly dependent on GPL-ed code anyway (e.g. gcc) and the way a JIT is licensed has no impact (that I can see) on its use, it doesn't seem near as important as just having a really solid java environment. >Doesn't matter which one is the best right now. Find me one >that isn't GPL'd and I would gladly pick it up and help extend >it. Ok, that answered the question. Good luck with your effort. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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