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Date:      Tue, 20 Feb 2001 03:06:20 +0800 (+0800)
From:      Michael Robinson <robinson@netrinsics.com>
To:        past@netmode.ntua.gr
Cc:        java@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Porting the JDK
Message-ID:  <200102191906.f1JJ6Kp03015@netrinsics.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010219200539.B28982@netmode.ece.ntua.gr>

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Panagiotis Astithas <past@netmode.ntua.gr> writes:
>I have been reading the Sun Community Source License for about
>an hour now, but it is still not clear to me: if I were to begin
>an effort to port the 1.3 jdk, would I be in violation of the
>license, if I published the necessary patches on this list?
>
>If so, the only way to produce a legal native 1.3 jdk would be
>to pay some fee to Sun and obtain the right to use the JCK, work 
>with it and publish the binary code?

You could always just "launder" your patches through Nate.  I'm sure he would
be most cooperative.

	-Michael Robinson

P.S.  If I had the time and resources, my inclination would be to port the
damn thing and dare Sun to sue me.  I'd have to find a way to smuggle the
source code into the country, first, though, because it's on Sun's "banned"
list.



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