From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Dec 4 11:25:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA19006 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:25:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA18991 for ; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 11:25:36 -0800 (PST) (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 MAA18419; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:25:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA26294; Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:25:28 -0700 Date: Thu, 4 Dec 1997 12:25:28 -0700 Message-Id: <199712041925.MAA26294@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Brian Behlendorf Cc: Nate Williams , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What can we do about Java? In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971204110026.0091fa90@hyperreal.org> References: <3485937E.F82C9A6@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> <34857E98.A0B877C3@fsl.noaa.gov> <199712041751.KAA25739@mt.sri.com> <3.0.3.32.19971204110026.0091fa90@hyperreal.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ Sun's 'educational' license for Java downloaders ] > >It's not an obnoxious license, really. > > Keep in mind once you've downloaded it and perused it, your ability to help > with the Kaffe project is potentially hindered. No kidding. But, that's not as important for me, since I really needed to look at the Sun sources for doing paid work doing Java development, since sometimes the best documentation is the sources for understanding how things work. For paid work, I'm less worried about how it affects doing free work than I would be normally, since paid work puts food on the table which is more important than how free my code is. (But, when I can have both all the better!). Nate