From owner-freebsd-java Tue Jan 5 07:56:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA29377 for freebsd-java-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 07:56:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@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 HAA29372 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 07:56:18 -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 IAA14623; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:55:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA03964; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:55:50 -0700 Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:55:50 -0700 Message-Id: <199901051555.IAA03964@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Gary Howland" Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kaffe and GNU licence In-Reply-To: <19990105152348.6224.qmail@abc.aaa-mainstreet.nl> References: <19990105152348.6224.qmail@abc.aaa-mainstreet.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > So, would it not be a good idea for FreeBSD to adopt the most > recent release under the old licence (0.9.3?), and maintain an > alternative version under the BSD licence? Feel free, but I doubt you'd find many users. Since Java is changing *so* fast, I doubt the old version will be much use to anyone in the long term, since it doesn't support much of anything. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message