From owner-freebsd-java Mon Feb 19 21:59: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from neptune.he.net (neptune.he.net [216.218.166.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3B437B503 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 21:59:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from netrinsics.com ([211.101.228.66] (may be forged)) by neptune.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id VAA28247 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 21:58:54 -0800 Received: (from robinson@localhost) by netrinsics.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1JJ6Kp03015; Tue, 20 Feb 2001 03:06:20 +0800 (+0800) (envelope-from robinson) Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 03:06:20 +0800 (+0800) From: Michael Robinson Message-Id: <200102191906.f1JJ6Kp03015@netrinsics.com> To: past@netmode.ntua.gr Subject: Re: Porting the JDK Cc: java@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010219200539.B28982@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Panagiotis Astithas 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message