From owner-freebsd-java Sat Mar 27 19:31:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from poboxer.pobox.com (unknown [208.149.16.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F7CB14FB1 for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:31:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from alk@poboxer.pobox.com) Received: (from alk@localhost) by poboxer.pobox.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA54117; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:30:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from alk) From: Anthony Kimball MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:30:25 -0600 (CST) X-Face: \h9Jg:Cuivl4S*UP-)gO.6O=T]]@ncM*tn4zG);)lk#4|lqEx=*talx?.Gk,dMQU2)ptPC17cpBzm(l'M|H8BUF1&]dDCxZ.c~Wy6-j,^V1E(NtX$FpkkdnJixsJHE95JlhO 5\M3jh'YiO7KPCn0~W`Ro44_TB@&JuuqRqgPL'0/{):7rU-%.*@/>q?1&Ed Reply-To: alk@pobox.com To: markd@Grizzly.COM Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A BSD-licensed JIT (was Re: Development Projects) References: <199903271801.KAA10685@osprey.grizzly.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14077.41181.542222.948279@avalon.east> Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Quoth Mark Diekhans on Sat, 27 March: : Given that FreeBSD is fairly dependent on GPL-ed code anyway (e.g. gcc) and : the way a JIT is licensed has no impact (that I can see) on its use, it : doesn't seem near as important as just having a really solid java environment. Open question: Can you distribute a JDK binary (whether new "Sun Community Source License" a la 1.2 or old 1.1.7-style) with a JIT which is GPL? My take: No. You absolutely cannot. You are clearly violating the GPL if you will not provide source, and the Sun license prevents you from providing source. I don't think LGPL will allow it either. The closest you can come is to provide instructions to the consumer for integrating the GPL JIT into a binary JDK. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message