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Subject: Re: Daemonising a Java Process: Possible?
To: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk (Robert Swindells)
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 Hi Robert,

> I am currently looking at taking the JIT from Kaffe-0.9.2 and building it
> into a shared library that will load into our JDK.
> 
> The reason for picking 0.9.2 is that it was the last version released
> under a BSD style licence, so we would be able to just release the
> binary for it.
> 

Who is "we", if I may ask?  The FreeBSD porters of Sun's JDK?
If so, why a binary-only release?  Is that your decision or would that
result from the licensing restrictions Sun puts on your port?

>From my knowledge of the history of Kaffe's licenses, this would 
appear to be the kind of behavior that led Transvirtual to using
the (more restrictive) GPL in the first place.

Also, I must agree with Archie here.  The actual legal document does
not talk about "never seen Sun's code."  It is, however, true, that
none of Sun's code is looked at while developing Kaffe code.  Not
being a lawyer, that seems a wise course of action to me.  Do you
feel that the latter restriction should be lifted?

	- Godmar


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