On 26 October 2010 13:29, John Yeary <johnye...@gmail.com> wrote: > There should be no issues around licensing. I have a conference call on > Friday to see about getting more binaries built by Oracle. Until there is > some word, it would still be prudent for the community to post ones like you > noted for less popular platforms. > > I was able to build x32/64 binaries for OS X, but the PPC is still a no-op. > I tried using Shark instead of Zero, but it did not work either. I did not > have time to search for the issue on the weekend. >
The place for filling Shark & Zero issues is still http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Christos Zoulas <chris...@zoulas.com> > wrote: >> >> On Oct 25, 2:28pm, land...@plausible.coop (Landon Fuller) wrote: >> -- Subject: Re: Licensing restrictions around distributing this port >> >> | On Oct 25, 2010, at 2:13 PM, Jonathan Hess wrote: >> | >> | > I remember that SoyLatte was encumbered by the some kind of JCP >> developer license restriction. However, my understanding is that this port >> should not be. Is that understanding correct? Is there anything special >> about the BSD port that makes it license differently from the regular >> OpenJDK's GPL2 license? >> | >> | The short answer is that the OpenJDK BSD-Port is fully redistributable, >> and is licensed under the same terms as the the mainline OpenJDK (GPLv2 or >> GPLv2+CPE). >> | >> | >> | The original BSD port of Java 6 (including Mac OS X support) was based >> on the Java Research License (JRL) sources as provided by Sun, and subject >> to associated distribution restrictions. The project was granted a one-time >> re-licensing to permit the merging into OpenJDK under GPLv2/GPLv2+CPE, which >> is what's available from the BSD-Port project today. >> >> I guess this means that we can put binaries up for ftp based on OpenJDK >> BSD-Port snapshots that have not been JCK tested. Is that right? >> I would like to be able to put up binaries for the less popular platforms >> on NetBSD because the bootstrapping issues makes building OpenJDK very >> difficult. >> >> christos >> > > > > -- > John Yeary > -- > http://javaevangelist.blogspot.com > http://www.johnyeary.com > > "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even > though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who > neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight > that knows not victory nor defeat." > -- Theodore Roosevelt > > > > -- Andrew :-) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and the OpenJDK http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://openjdk.java.net PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint: F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
