Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:58:52 +0900 From: shudo@computer.org To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Contributing... Message-ID: <20010825115852W.shudoh@aist.go.jp> In-Reply-To: <3B8688AA.6956F1BD@ideasandassociates.com> References: <3B8688AA.6956F1BD@ideasandassociates.com>
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Tim Liddelow <tim@ideasandassociates.com> wrote: > I'm a senior developer / kernel hacker that would like to help out in > the Java porting effort to my OS of choice, FreeBSD. I have been afraid of contamination of excellent developers involved in FreeBSD/Java. As we know, once a hacker sign Sun proprietary licenses, she/he can contribute for GNU Java projects no longer. If one has signed SCSL or the old JDK license to download the JDK source code, she/he is not allowed to contribute to the GCJ project, Classpath, and Mauve. Contribution to other many Java projects like Japhar, SableVM, AromaVM and kissme may be prohibited. I have no idea about such a prohibision of contribution. But the contamination by proprietary licenses is a real problem. In Linux case, binary distributions of the recent JDKs are released by the Blackdown porting team. So even if the Blackdown team is polluted, users can use the binary releases without the pollution. But, the current efforts around FreeBSD/Java is polluting many excellent hackers with Sun's licenses. I have been anxious for this situation. I hope binary distributions strongly in order to prevent the spread of the contamination. I hope you examine the contamination if you download the source code. Any idea? Kazuyuki Shudo To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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