Thanks,
I Think that u will find that 'any' distribution, and completed port now is
considered commercial, therefor not for free ( i believe this extends even to
yourself, for personel uses ). The Non-Commercial licenses appears to have bitten the
dust when this OPENNESS was made.
A proper port cannot be done if one cannot change the "c"/"c++"/".java" files that are
platform dependent. Ie addresses on the Digital alpha alpha are 64bit, of which are
sometimes stored in java objects by native routines. With jdk 1.1.x the JDB had a
habbit of using the physical memory addresses of objects. Haven't played with jdb in
1.2, BUT was surprised that debugging with NETBEANS & JDK 1.2 worked.
As I understand it, a license was given to one person of the the java-linux-porting
mailing group. That license is sublicensed. I know nothing of the terms of that
license, as it has never been published in the java-linux mail/news group.
gat
Jeff Galyan wrote:
> Distribution is not free *if* you are doing a commercial port. As I understand it,
>the Blackdown team have been given a free license to distribute their port, as well
>as a free license for the JCK. Now, you have to understand that a "port" is defined
>in the SCSL as modification to the *platform-dependent* (i.e. native) parts of the VM
>code for the purpose of getting the VM to run correctly on a given platform.
>Modification of the core Java class libraries is still prohibited.
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