On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Sven de Marothy wrote:
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 16:45 +1000, Peter Donald wrote:
If you have downloaded Harmony, which intends to be a full JDK
including
a VM and class library, why would you want to be able to use that
with the
class library from a different JDK?
In "[arch] VM Interface" on "6/06/2005 10:32 AM" I wrote
"I assume that if the Harmony JVM gets half as good as is hoped
there will be companys who want to adopt the JVM but continue
to use Suns class library so that differences in libraries don't hurt
their customers."
If the Harmony JVM gets half as good as hoped, it will be fully J2SE 5
compatible. If it passes the TCK, it's compatible. If that still hurts
people, then that code is broken. You've got to draw the line
somewhere.
And there is no reason to believe the VM part of Harmony will have
higher quality than the class library. Especially not if the VM is
written from scratch.
Disregarding the illegality of distributing such a combo,
I am not sure why it would be illegal if someone like IBM were to
use the
Harmony JVM but use Suns class library. Actually I think that this
use case
is one of the aims of the project.
It is in violation of Sun's EULA.
IBM would understand this, and IBM, if they wanted to do this, would
work out the licensing with Sun, I assume. That's not our concern.
geir
/Sven
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