Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 11:13:57 -0800 From: Steve Byrne <sbb@freegate.com> To: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sun Ports JDK to Linux Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19981103111357.00a1c100@mailhost.hq.freegate.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981103112445.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com>
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At 11:24 AM 11/3/98 -0500, Patrick Gardella wrote: >Here's a note from JavaWorld: > >In addition, Sun on Monday announced it will port the forthcoming Java >Development Kit (JDK) 1.2 to Linux, adding the free, open-source-code operating >system to such platforms as Hewlett-Packard's HP-UX and Sun's Solaris 7 for >optimized Java development and deployment. > >Full story at: >http://www.javaworld.com/jw-11-1998/jw-11-iw-jdklinux.html?110298txt and >http://java.sun.com/pr/1998/11/pr981102-01.html > >Porters: >Now the big question, can we get the source to the Linux port (Should I start >calling them)? And will that help our porting effort more than the Solaris code >we already have? (My first guess would be yes.) Here's the deal. Sun has licensed the JDK 1.2 sources to *me*, for the purposes of porting it to Linux. I can sublicense the source code, and selectively the Java Compatibility Kit, to others for the purposes of developing Linux ports. I'm pretty sure that the license I have would not allow me to sublicense the sources to the FreeBSD community for the purposes of porting to FreeBSD :-(. I don't know whether calling them will do any good or not. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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