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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