On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 12:04:01PM -0500, Gustavo Guillermo P�rez wrote: > El S�bado, 9 de Abril de 2005 10:50, Michael Koch escribi�: > > On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 10:57:15AM -0500, Gustavo Guillermo P�rez wrote: > > > Hello, I was reading the licens of Jikes and I see is not GNU/GPL, why is > > > the default compiler for the classpath instead of Kopi Java Compiler, I > > > noted that javac is pointing to jikes and I don't want to mix this kind > > > of licences. > > > > Wrong: GNU classpath's default compiler is GCJ. > > > > > I try to use kcj with an earlier compiled kaffe binary but hangs class > > > compilation, and I noticed the build process finish a lot faster than > > > before with jikes. > > > > Jikes is free. Just not GPL. That is no problem. Much good software is > > free but not GPL, see the BSD and Apache licenses. > > That is that I was don't know, and of course jikes is a lot faster. > > > > There is any problem with kcj, that makes forcing the use of jikes? > > > Which are the advantages? > > > > - KJC is full of bugs, much more then jikes. > > I see, ok, I was just ask, becouse I see the article of Richard Stallman > called "the trap of java". > > http://programming.newsforge.com/programming/04/04/07/2021242.shtml
This article is good and important. We need a complete free toolchain. But this doesnt mean all needs to be GPL. There are a lot of GPL-compatible licenses. There are some isses between GPL and ASL but this getting worked out currently. Michael -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/ _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [email protected] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
