On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:03:44AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 01.57 05/02/03 +0000, you wrote: > >> is happy to run on build 552; it is slow because run on a > >> slow system; the memory profile and resource use of kaffe > >> is far better respect sun jre. > >> Take care of this compatibility; IMHO is more important > >> then that the mean Freenet developer think. > > > >It crashes in minutes on my machine. The developers have been somewhat > >nonresponsive, the bugs seem to be deep magick and the Project Leaders > >have determined that we don't need to spend money making Kaffe work with > >Freenet. > > This statement is very important; IMHO the Freenet Project > need an explicit position on that question. > > Project Leaders, can we hear you ? > > Releasing the main code under GPL is ineffective, if the > .jar need proprietary software; in my understanding > the use of the GPL licence is incorrect; I think in > this case LGPL is the right type of licence. > > Anyway, till Freenet remains in java, dropping the Kaffe > compatibility IMHO is a fundamental mistake, both from > the point of view of free software and from the security. > > The only other way to solve this problem is IMU, to > release a C (or other freely compilable/runnable language) > version It would be much easier to port to GNU C++ and it would run on almost as many computers. But it would probably be easier to fix kaffe. > > JM2C. Marco > > > -- > + il Progetto Freenet - segui il coniglio bianco + > * the Freenet Project - follow the white rabbit * > * Marco A. Calamari [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.marcoc.it * > * PGP RSA: ED84 3839 6C4D 3FFE 389F 209E 3128 5698 * > + DSS/DH: 8F3E 5BAE 906F B416 9242 1C10 8661 24A9 BFCE 822B +
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