GPL2 Java?

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 09:23 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram writes:
>  > David Woodhouse wrote:
>  > > On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 11:36 -0800, Otto Rey wrote:
>  > >> +1 Include Sun JDK in Fedora
>  > > 
>  > > Does Sun JDK build for PowerPC?
>  > 
>  > Nope but its potentially possible now.
> 
> I don't really understand this remark.  "Potentially possible?"  What
> does this mean?  That we can write a Java VM for the PowerPC?  But, of
> course, that was always true.  It's not as though we needs access to
> the source of a VM for some other arch before we can write one. 

And indeed we already have one.

At least two, in fact -- gcj and the IBM Java (which has a firefox
plugin).

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dwmw2