On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 10:49:30AM -0500, Nelson Minar wrote:
> >Perhaps when the dust settles from the 1.2 port, it might be possible
> >to arrange more formal and detailed visibility into what work is
> >being done, what's under consideration, what's of interest, and progress.
> I'd like to see more information about the porting process myself, but
> that's asking the porting team to do even *more* work. The old rules
> for Java made doing a Linux-style port awkward; things had to be
> discussed in secret, code couldn't be released, etc. What's the impact
> of the new community source licensing? Maybe we can open up the
> porting process some? I haven't reviewed the licenses well enough.
I've been paying attention to this as well, and (unfortunately) I
haven't been able to find anything more specific than press releases
about semi-open-source JDK development on Sun's site. I'd like to help
with the port to 1.2, but it seems pointless to acquire a 1.1 source
license in order to do so.
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Matthew Hunter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
