On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Matt Welsh wrote:
>
> Riyad Kalla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I was sent this by Joel McCarty and think it might be a
> > good thing for us to sign up and vote "Java-Linux
> > Blackdown" to a project that we wish to be funded.
>
> This would be great, if the Sun Linux port of the JDK were even
> remotely Open Source!
You do know that Kaffe is a GPL implementation of a JVM and the Java
libraries right? That is about as "Open Source" as it gets. Kaffe runs
great on Linux and supports a lot of apps. If you really want to
see Open Source Java on Linux you should help support the Kaffe
project (see www.kaffe.org). There is also a LGPL Java impl called
Japhar, but I have had less luck getting Java programs to work
with Japhap when compared to Kaffe.
later
mo
> This is not to knock the Blackdown team. I'm just pointing out that
> Java is *not* Open Source. I would love to see a good, Open Source
> Java implementation for Linux, but most of the options out there
> are commercial and use non-Open Source licenses. As such, I believe
> they are ineligible for support by projects like SourceXchange.
>
> I doubt that most people would consider the Sun Community Source License
> to be Open Source, either. What we really should be doing is lobbying
> Sun (or other vendors, like IBM) to release their Java implementations
> as Open Source.
>
> Matt Welsh
>
>
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