Nelson Minar wrote:
>
> What do people here think about Redhat having Kaffe installed by
> default as the binary "java"? I think it's a bad idea because Kaffe
> really doesn't support enough Java to be useful, at least to me. On
> the other hand, I want to support Kaffe and Japhar and other free
> software efforts, I don't want to exclude them. I've just seen a lot
> of people be confused by "why doesn't Java work on Redhat?".
Considering that redhat probably isn't allowed to (or does't want to)
include the jdk in their distribution I think that Kaffe is the only
realistic solution to having java in Redhat. Also I hope redhat is
keeping up with kaffe's development as the latest release 1.0-beta4 is
quite better then previous ones, it even does a reasonable job on some
swing apps.
> Does anyone know the story on the Klasses.jar they distribute as part
> of kaffe? What's the license terms, how is it different than classpath?
I believe it's GPL, where as classpath is LGPL, though from memory there
is explicit permission for people to use it (link to the classlibs) for
non-GPL'ed programs.
Maksim.
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