Interesting... so, in theory, any organisation with sufficient funds and expertise might actually pull it off to create a serious VM language. It would be the right time for that.
But I guess it would be risky to claim PL/2 happens to be able to use any already existing Java libraries ? On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 21:12, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Unless somebody had a trademark on "PL2", they might still come after > you... > > > On 9 September 2010 20:09, 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >> >> > > > -- > Kevin Wright > > mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] > pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright > twitter: @thecoda > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- 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.
