From owner-freebsd-java Thu Mar 28 9: 8:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C781037B41D for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:08:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from caddis.yogotech.com (caddis.yogotech.com [206.127.123.130]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA26239; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:08:09 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by caddis.yogotech.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2SH88P17110; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:08:08 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15523.19960.610629.306337@caddis.yogotech.com> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:08:08 -0700 To: Anthony Green Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [press@apache.org: PRESS RELEASE: ASF Reaches Agreement with Sun to Allow Open Source Java Implementations] In-Reply-To: <1017328351.3770.59.camel@dhcppc2> References: <20020328114700.U47000-100000@luke.hangzone.dk> <1017328351.3770.59.camel@dhcppc2> X-Mailer: VM 6.96 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > are there any overview on how many would be interested in doing a > > opensource jvm? and perhaps something that needs to be done? > > Rather than start work on a new opensource jvm, why not help out on one > of the existing opensource jvms. In case anyone is thinking of doing this, realize that *IF* you've downloaded the Sun JDK (to build the port), you may not be in a good legal position to work on GCJ, since you've had access to Sun's source code. > In the short term, right now we're preparing for the GCC 3.1 release > (gcj is part of GCC). FreeBSD is one of the platforms giving us a > little trouble right now. See... > http://gcc.gnu.org/java/gcj-3.1-status.html > We could use help looking into the test failures on x86 FreeBSD, and > perhaps even trying builds on currently untested platforms. Unfortunately, some folks who are capable of helping have legal entanglements due to Sun licensing that prevents them from helping. :( Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message