GPL2 Java?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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.

I meant that since Sun has now indicated that it is putting Java under 
GPL (+classpath exception), they might be interested in working with 
people to port it to more architectures.

Rahul