GPL2 Java?
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Fri Nov 17 10:31:54 UTC 2006
Pete Zaitcev writes:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:23:14 +0000, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > > > 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.
>
> So, if "we" "can" write one, why haven't we?
>
> I don't understand what your point is. Are you, personally, going to
> package JDK for PPC? Are you stenously object to someone else packaging
> JDK for PPC? If neither, what are you wasting the bandwidth about?
It's a question. I didn't understand Rahul's remark. I still don't.
> So Rahul's wording was not perfect, big deal!
>
> By the way, surely you know that VMs are dime a dozen, and the
> libraries are the real problem.
I might have some knowledge of that.
> I am quite happy with my gcj and Classpath, which execute my
> critical Java applications today, but there are still people out
> there would would benefit from (compatibility with) all bugs in Sun
> JDK libraries.
Excellent.
Andrew.
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