From owner-freebsd-java Fri Aug 24 19:57:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp (mx1.aist.go.jp [150.29.246.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 417D837B403 for ; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 19:57:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from k.shudou@aist.go.jp) Received: from rpsmtp1.aist.go.jp by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id f7P2vhN27237 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:57:43 +0900 (JST) env-from (k.shudou@aist.go.jp) Received: from mail11.aist.go.jp by rpsmtp1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id f7P2vg212439 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:57:42 +0900 (JST) env-from (k.shudou@aist.go.jp) Received: from localhost by mail11.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id f7P2vfM29295 for ; Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:57:42 +0900 (JST) env-from (k.shudou@aist.go.jp) To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Contributing... From: shudo@computer.org In-Reply-To: <3B8688AA.6956F1BD@ideasandassociates.com> References: <3B8688AA.6956F1BD@ideasandassociates.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.2 on XEmacs 21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010825115852W.shudoh@aist.go.jp> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 11:58:52 +0900 X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 36 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 Tim Liddelow 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