I have used jikes in the past and I can tell you that it works much better
then the javac compiler that comes with the JDK. My only problems with the
new license are the following terms.
snips from the license.
2) YOUR Program includes more than 60% of
the Original Code.
2) YOUR Program includes more than 60%
of the Program as distributed by IBM.
This means that people are not allowed to use a single function
out of the jikes source because any "derived work" must have at least
60% of the original jikes code included. In addition, this license
will not allow someone to take the jikes code and fork off a new
developement tree. This means that if you want to rewrite the code
you must take care to change less then 40% of the code. If these silly
parts of the license are changed then I would feel a lot better about
jikes.
Mo DeJong
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gimme multimedia group
On 7 Dec 1998, Brian Jones wrote:
> http://www.research.ibm.com/jikes/license/
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> Brian
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