2006/11/16, Jesper Zuschlag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Actually, from what I have been told by several ARM representatives its the other way around.
It's funny, because Sun is insisting; from: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6857451192.html Eric Chu, senior director for the mobile and embedded market at Sun, says: "We won't be able to put everything out there [under the GPL]. For example, in our commercial product, we have integration with Jazelle. Obviously, we cannot put that code into open source. So in the open source version, we will take out some of the pieces that have third party IP, that we don't have the right to open source. Whereas with the commercial product, in some cases, we already have some of those commercial relationships in place that allow us to include those pieces."
Something in the Jazelle architecture is covered by one or more Sun patents, which means that ARM cannot disclose the architectural details to 3rd parties that isn't Sun- licensees. I believe that in view of the recent open-sourcing of Java, Sun and ARM should sit together and solve this issue so that we can use the full potential of our devices. I find this whole situation ridiculously. /Jesper
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