Ciao Enrico, --- Enrico Donelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > first of all, my best compliments with yopur very > good and important > work. I really wish kaffe a bright future and I hope > it will be more > integrated in linux (and other free os as well!) > operating system.
thanks! Don't hesitate to become part of that bright future and participate ;) Like most open source projects, kaffe needs more bright people to help it succeed. > Probabbly the question is not very clever, but I > read some articles on > the net about the new JCP (Java Community Process, > vers. 2.5, > http://java.sun.com/features/2002/10/new_jcp.html) > and didn't understand > well what does it mean for the open source java > projects. > Will this new document help a projecty like kaffe or > it will be uninfluent? It helps clarify kaffe's legal position with respect to bundling open source implementations of java extensions with kaffe. Before the change, it was legally murky, as it was not really clear whether one was allowed to have open source implementations at all. It could also help kaffe developers to find more bugs in their own implementation by allowing easier access to TCKs <technology compatibility kits, large test suites> for JCP developed technologies, in principle. I'm not sure if Sun's own TCK for JDK falls under that, but I remember reading that Sun would let qualified members of open source community have access to a "scholarship", which means they could get access to Sun's TCKs on Sun lead JCP proposals. Anyway, I am busy enough fixing bugs in kaffe exposed by mauve, the open source JDK compatibility kit ;) It would also allow kaffe.org to take a lead on some new JCP spec and have the reference implementation and the compatibility kit published under a GPL compatible license. Proposing new APIs hasn't been a focus of this project so far, and I doubt it will ever be, but it matters a lot for the Apache developers, for example, as they are quite involved in the JCP process with respect to servlets and similar beasts. In general, I'd say that the changes in the JCP are good for the open source community as a whole, but do not have as much relevance for kaffe as for other projects. best regards, dalibor topic __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
