Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:41:43 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> Cc: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, nate@mt.sri.com, F.Risso@cs.ucl.ac.uk, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Native thread on JDK 1.1.7 Message-ID: <199903171941.MAA11176@mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199903171738.KAA37133@vip.consys.com> References: <199903171712.KAA10340@mt.sri.com> <199903171738.KAA37133@vip.consys.com>
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[ Just in case anyone gets any wild ideas about a JDK port using this code. ] > |> We do support kernel threads and they are virtually the same as the linux > |> threads. > | > |Not quite. We support *LINUX* threads in emulation mode with a GPL > |add-on package, but we don't have native kernel threads in a form usable > |by native FreeBSD software. > > It is a GPL'd port but it sure as hell works just fine for native > FreeBSD software. I have made *enormous* progress with ACE/TAO > using LinuxThreads. Great! Unfortunately, you can't make any binary-only distributions using this code due to the GPL. This makes a JDK/JRE impossible due to license conflicts with the JDK license and the GPL license. (I can't make a binary-only distribution using GPL code, and I'm not allowed to divulge (sp?) the JDK sources to everyone.) I *could* make a port and distribute patches, but then only people who had access to the JDK sources could use it, which is something I consider to be unacceptable. In other words, if you use the ACE/TAO code in a product, you *must* distribute all of the sources if you plan on distributing it, even to other developers. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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