Hi,
I've heard that it is possible to get
JDK sources in a much relaxed way than earlier.
I know, this is no lawyer's list, but perhaps some
of you can write about license compatibility to GPL?
For example I've written the TYA JIT under clean room
conditions, but looking on JDK sources would
pollute the clean room, no doubt.
OTOH if Sun releases their sources, writing JDK related
but GPLed software knowing their sources would not
disclose any secrets (because Sun disclosed this himself).
So it should be possible.
But what if someone would cut & paste some code lines
from this sources into his own GPLed code? IMHO impossible.
And what if you have accepted the license, will you be still
free to contribute to direct competitors of JDK (for example
kaffe or Japhar)?
Cheers
Albrecht
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