Hi all, [The first part of this email is about licensing stuff, the last bit is more interesting ;)]
There are a couple parties interested in using bits of Kaffe's verifier, but the GPL is not compatible with their projects' licenses. In the past, I released an older version (of pass 3) for Chris Gray's WankaVM under the MIT license, because I had done all of the development and so had the copyright. I would like to do a similar thing with the current development snapshot, and would certainly like to release it under multiple licenses when I'm pretty content that it's production-ready. I believe that Helmer, Guilhem, and Dalibor have all done various things to the verifier's code since my last relicensing, which means, I believe, that I need their permission this time around. I went through the ChangeLogs and didn't find anyone else mentioned, but I wanted to make sure on this list, as it's possible that I missed a small contribution (the ChangeLogs are mighty long these days). Anyway, I don't want to pressure anyone into doing anything contrary to their convictions. If you have contributed, and you feel strongly about the GPL and so don't want to give permission to relicense, then I'm content to continue working on Kaffe's verifier and not relicense it. However, I think it ultimately benefits more people if I have the ability to give what is mostly my work to whomever will find it useful. In other news, Helmer created a patch that seems to fix the Circular Linking Bug in the class loader I reported earlier (Thanks!). I've been really busy and haven't had much time to play with it, but when the patched kaffe is run with -verifyremote as an option I am able to run lots of big programs. As soon as things like Eclipse, Ant, etc., work with -verifyremote (just a couple small bugs to iron out, nothing really major has been popping up), I suggest that we turn verification on by default in the CVS head. Objections? Also, I was wondering how close we are to officially releasing 1.1.5, and thus how much time I have to debug so that, potentially, 1.1.5 would have verification on be default. I'm happy to wait for 1.1.6 to do that; I mostly just wanted people's opinions. cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
