At 03:00 PM 4/20/99 +0100, Phillip Lord wrote:
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>>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Field <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> Robert> Sun Microsystems Java Software division has a potential
> Robert> student summer internship, to participate in the interfacing
> Robert> of the Java Development Environment for Emacs (JDE):
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> This sounds like a good thing is Sun are prepared to put
>money into advancing the JDE. However the only thing I would worry
>about is will the JDE debugger interface be released under GPL? Whilst
>Sun so far been fairly honourable about java, and maintained (and
>extended) its open source its not GPL, and it would be a pity to see a
>properitary part of the JDE. Apart from philosophical reasons I've
>already distributed the JDE, and both the JDE and emacs to fellow java
>coders. If there were some sort of wacky license agreement to follow
>(for even part of the JDE) particularly if it required downloads from
>Sun seriously slow site, that would be a pity.
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Hi Philip,
Thanks for raising this issue.
Here are my thoughts.
The interface that I'm proposing has two sides: a java side, which is basically
a modification of the jdb source code to work with the JDE, and an Emacs
side. Ideally, both sides should be GPLed, specifically it'd be great if
the source
for jdb were GPLed. If the Emacs side is GPLed and the modified jdb is supplied
under the existing license arrangement, we'd have the status quo.
If Sun is unwilling to GPL any work that they do, then I could work on the
Lisp
side, while the intern works on the Java side, we'd preserve the status
quo and still be ahead as far as getting a solid debugger for the JDE.
- Paul
