From owner-freebsd-java Wed Mar 17 11:43:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A34851553A for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:43:08 -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 MAA05715; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:42:02 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA11176; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:41:43 -0700 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:41:43 -0700 Message-Id: <199903171941.MAA11176@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Russell L. Carter" 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 In-Reply-To: <199903171738.KAA37133@vip.consys.com> References: <199903171712.KAA10340@mt.sri.com> <199903171738.KAA37133@vip.consys.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ 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