From owner-freebsd-java Thu Mar 28 9:38:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mgr2.xmission.com (mgr2.xmission.com [198.60.22.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 549C237B421 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 09:38:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [207.135.128.145] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mgr2.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 16qdqz-000752-00; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 10:38:26 -0700 Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2SHcBN26290; Fri, 29 Mar 2002 04:08:11 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 04:08:11 +1030 From: Greg Lewis To: Nate Williams Cc: Anthony Green , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [press@apache.org: PRESS RELEASE: ASF Reaches Agreement with Sun to Allow Open Source Java Implementations] Message-ID: <20020329040811.A26263@misty.eyesbeyond.com> References: <20020328114700.U47000-100000@luke.hangzone.dk> <1017328351.3770.59.camel@dhcppc2> <15523.19960.610629.306337@caddis.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <15523.19960.610629.306337@caddis.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:08:08AM -0700 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 On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 10:08:08AM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > 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. :( Giving a completely uninformed opinion... I think this depends on what the problem is. From the sounds of it, they have a version which works on some operating systems (I'm guessing Linux :). Merely fixing this to work on FreeBSD (for the definition of "working" already described by the test case) doesn't seem to me to present a problem. OTOH, implementing a feature or fixing a feature may well present a problem. Of course, thats merely a common sense point of view, not a legal one. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message