And to continue the thought experiment; suppose I join Jan's interesting PL/2 project and decides add another emitter to javac, one that outputs Dalvik compliant byte-code?
On Sep 9, 9:09 pm, Reinier Zwitserloot <[email protected]> wrote: > In theory, they wouldn't come, as that's legit according to the > license. You do have to give full credit and you'd have to release it > under the GPL as well. > > IANAL. > > On Sep 9, 8:38 pm, Jan Goyvaerts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I know there has been *many* messages already about last day events > > regarding to the future of Java. Although certainly inspired by it, I have a > > question that is not about Java or any other language. So please, *don't* > > waste > > this thread into something else. Thanks. > > * > > * > > * * > > Suppose I want to create a new programming language PL/2, whatever my > > reasons for that... > > > 1) I download OpenJDK (I know it's great). > > 2) I rename every "java" into "pl2". (I know I can't call it "Java"). > > 3) I republish the thing as an open source project OpenPL2. > > > How fast can I expect lawyers to knock on my door ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
