From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 11 13:30:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA01763 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 13:30:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01711 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 13:29:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA11945; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 14:29:46 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id OAA24098; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 14:29:44 -0600 Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 14:29:44 -0600 Message-Id: <199804112029.OAA24098@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: alk@pobox.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Where is the FreeBSD Mozilla CVS server? In-Reply-To: <199804111653.LAA05849@pobox.com> References: <199804111653.LAA05849@pobox.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > But, developing a new Java VM inside of netscape if you have access to > > Sun's sources using the 'educational' licensing is strictly prohibited, > > no mater how good your intentions are. > > I strongly disagree with this unqualified statement. Who prohibits > it? What text of the license? If you don't use the Sun code, the > license does not in any way constrain you from working on any kind > of new code. Sure it does. Go read the license that you signed in order to get access to the source code. If you want to do anything commercial (which includes making a $$, even if you're not the one making a $$), then you've gotta pay sun a pretty tidy sum of money. Last I heard it was close to a million dollars. Even if you don't use Sun code, you are 'tainted' from working on writing a different VM. This is basic Reverse Engineering 101. The folks who look at the code aren't allowed to write the code for the new implementation. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message