From owner-freebsd-java Sat Mar 27 20: 3: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from osprey.grizzly.com (osprey.grizzly.com [209.133.20.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2998B152AD for ; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:03:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from markd@Grizzly.COM) Received: (from markd@localhost) by osprey.grizzly.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA03993; Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:02:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 20:02:38 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199903280402.UAA03993@osprey.grizzly.com> X-Authentication-Warning: osprey.grizzly.com: markd set sender to markd@grizzly.com using -f From: Mark Diekhans To: alk@pobox.com Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <14077.41181.542222.948279@avalon.east> (message from Anthony Kimball on Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:30:25 -0600 (CST)) Subject: Re: A BSD-licensed JIT (was Re: Development Projects) References: <199903271801.KAA10685@osprey.grizzly.com> <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? JITs for the Sun JDK are dynamically loaded shared libraries, so they can be distrbuted independently. LGPL is probably no issue; as far as I can tell, the GPL makes little sense in a world that decomposes into something more complex than staticly linked programs. >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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message