Oded Arbel wrote: > Unfortunately, it requires bootstrapping with an existing > JDK, and Sun's 1.6 or 1.7 (beta and alpha respectively) are recommended. > As neither of these are free software I don't think the new "Open"JDK > qualifies as free software either, regardless of the licensing. > According to the same logic, neither is GCC. After all, in order to compile the first version of GCC, a proprietary compiler was used.
If you can create a first version of the openjdk from this bootstrapped environment, and then use the first version to create a second version, then it is free by any standard you may wish to apply. In other words, if the only reason you cannot use free-only environment in order to build openJDK is because you don't have a pre-built version of openJDK available, then this is no reason to, for example, stop openjdk from entering "Debian main" archive, which is free only. Shachar -- Shachar Shemesh Lingnu Open Source Consulting ltd. Have you backed up today's work? http://www.lingnu.com/backup.html ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
