Hi Dalibor, You did quite a lot of the work yourself! It's been a great week for Free Software. Kudos to the Kaffe Team! ;)
David Fu -- firecat server-side javascript webserver http://firecat.nihonsoft.org http://blog.netbeans.jp/roller/page/fchoong > Hi, > > In case you've somehow missed it, Sun has indeed opened up a large part > of their code in their new OpenJDK project[2]. > > Sun is using the classic licensing model in the GNU Classpath world, > i.e. a GPLd VM and GPL+classpath exception for the library code. Which > means we could share code between the projects quite easily from the > licensing perspective. > > The class library code of the JDK will be released in the next six > months, and the analysts over at redmonk have all the fun details and > links, so I'll just link to cote's and sogrady's extensive analysis of > it all. [1]. > > Anyway. I didn't get much sleep in the last few days, so I'll keep this > one short. > > What I really wanted to say is: > > Thank you. > > Thank you all who've contributed to Kaffe, and our many sister projects > like GNU Classpath in one form or another, and who made it all so useful > in the process of liberating Java. > > As usual, when such a big announcement happens, people wonder what will > happen with other projects in that space. Kaffe will, of course, go on > as long as it's fun to write code for. Where it's going to go, that'll > continue to be up to the people submitting the patches to decide, like > it's been so far. > > I've got a few ideas where the project could head next, and I'm sure so > do others. I'm looking forward to closely working together with the new > projects at Sun, like we work together with GNU Classpath, and our other > upstreams. Let's see how it all works out, I'm optimistic and excited > about it all. > > But I guess you noticed that already ... > > off to catch up on sleep, > dalibor topic > > [1] > http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/002516.html > http://www.redmonk.com/cote/archives/2006/11/gpled_java.html > > [2] http://community.java.net/openjdk/ > > _______________________________________________ > kaffe mailing list > [email protected] > http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe > _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [email protected] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
