On Feb 17, 1999, Alex Nicolaou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now, you've done something cool, and you want to give it to someone. In
> this case, the license binds you to two main restrictions. The first is
> that code in the JDK that you've modified must be returned to Sun for
> inclusion in the source code base of future releases. These
> modifications basically become part of the next version of the JDK.
And what if my modifications aren't suitable for a JavaVM. I, for
one, have modified Kaffe to implement an extended Java Virtual Machine
with Computational Reflection mechanisms. Sun might not be interested
in adopting the Meta-Object Protocol of Guaran�
<URL:http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva/guarana/> in Java, so I'd be
stuck if I had chosen JDK.
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Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
