Hi folks, It seems like some people here haven't been through the typical license negotiation process. Apparently Steve went through the nontrivial step of working out a license agreement with Sun. The terms he acquired for the Linux port do not allow distribution until the JCK tests pass. He alluded that in hindsight it might have been better to not accept that clause of the contract, but hindsight is hindsight. Once the port works it will no longer be an issue. Wrt. IBM being able to distribute a non JCK compliant release: It is not a technical issue of the number of engineers involved. It is a matter of the contract which IBM independently negotiated. Wrt those that say that the standard 1.2 source agreement could be used to make a freely distributable JDK. I suspect this is not true. The standard distribution of JDK source comes as a "research" license - you can't distribute changes based on a research license easily. If you want to upgrade to a commercial license, then you are back to discussing royalties with Sun and JCK tests by third parties. If you care about this - read the very extensive license at the www.sun.com sourceware sight. I think Steve and the folks who are working on 1.2 have done us a wonderful service. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Brett W. McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 1999 12:52 PM To: Uli Luckas Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sun's License for Java 2 On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Uli Luckas wrote: > Why can IBM publish an 'almost' ready java 2 VM and why can't the linux > porters? But how many people does IBM have working on the porting effort versus the number of people working on hte Linux port? And how many people at IBM are working on their port as a paying job versus a porting effort being worked on in addition to someone's paying job. I think that's an unfair comparison. Brett W. McCoy http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare. ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GAT dpu s:-- a C++++ UL++++$ P+ L+++ E W++ N- o K- w--- O@ M-@ !V PS+++ PE Y+ PGP- t++ 5- X+ R+@ tv b+++ DI+++ D+ e>++ h+ r++ y++++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
