Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-09 Thread Philippe Laporte
Dalibor Topic wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 23:30 +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: Hej, Well, see that's my outsider take. In my view people should join efforts independently of egos. Perhaps I am too idealistic... I am sure if you spend some time researching on the Internet

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-09 Thread Christian Thalinger
On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:11 +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: There isn't a thousand ways to do a VM. What we need is free VM that is better than any non-free. How are we doing on this one? Depends on how you interpret better. Faster? Smaller? ...? TWISTI

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-09 Thread Philippe Laporte
Chris Burdess wrote: Philippe Laporte wrote: I am sorry that my purpose is not clear yet. It will be soon enough. ... when I solve world poverty, and people are bowing down to me in the streets. that's one way to get what I'm writing... Do I really need to answer this? I think a

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-09 Thread Chris Burdess
Philippe Laporte wrote: I am sorry that my purpose is not clear yet. It will be soon enough. ... when I solve world poverty, and people are bowing down to me in the streets. Do I really need to answer this? I think a lot of people appreciate my interventions. Not on this list. Now, I

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-09 Thread Philippe Laporte
Christian Thalinger wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 11:11 +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: There isn't a thousand ways to do a VM. What we need is free VM that is better than any non-free. How are we doing on this one? Depends on how you interpret better. Faster? Smaller? ...?

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770:http://sablevm.org/wiki/License_FAQ is blocked.

2006-03-09 Thread Audrius Meskauskas
Etienne Gagnon wrote: http://sablevm.org/wiki/License_FAQ Etienne The page content is Cannot open /var/lib/wiki/sablevm.org/page/L/License_FAQ.pg: Permission denied. As the page is strongly involved into the current discussion, would you mind giving permissions for the people to read

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770:http://sablevm.org/wiki/License_FAQ is blocked.

2006-03-09 Thread Philippe Laporte
uuhhh, it's obvious that it was made so in the last few hours...it was fine before... Philippe Laporte Software Gatespace Telematics Första Långgatan 18 41328 Göteborg Sweden Phone: +46 702 04 35 11 Fax: +46 31 24 16 50 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Audrius Meskauskas wrote: Etienne Gagnon

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-09 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Philippe, Please try to keep the lists on topic. And please keep runtime specific stuff on the specific runtime lists. Don't cross-post unnecessary (others have also done that, it is not just you). People please keep non-classpath specific stuff off the GNU Classpath developers list. GCJ,

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-09 Thread Philippe Laporte
Hi, Thanks for your mail which is very helpful. Mark Wielaard wrote: Hi Philippe, Please try to keep the lists on topic. And please keep runtime specific stuff on the specific runtime lists. Don't cross-post unnecessary (others have also done that, it is not just you). People please keep

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-08 Thread Dalibor Topic
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:49:42PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:28:10PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: - Sable has a large and active community In the last time the project seems to be very inactive except some mails on the

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-08 Thread Philippe Laporte
Hi, You are some character! Luckily you are not the standard... These questions must be asked. They are not attacks. That is your own cultural-specific interpretation... I am an independent party seeking the best embedded VM, that's it, that's all. Regards, Philippe Laporte Software

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-08 Thread Philippe Laporte
Dalibor Topic wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:37:17PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: If you link native to a GPL VM, then that code must also be GPL, no? That is an absolute requirement in the embedded world... That is true. But running java bytecode in with a

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-08 Thread Tom Tromey
Philippe == Philippe Laporte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Philippe Luckily you are not the standard... True, but I think he's pretty fairly representing the community baseline. Philippe These questions must be asked. They are not attacks. That is your own Philippe cultural-specific

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-08 Thread Philippe Laporte
Hej, Well, see that's my outsider take. In my view people should join efforts independently of egos. Perhaps I am too idealistic... I am trying to provoke some kind of debate and hopefully resolution of open issues... I will soon launch a project of projects where people from

[Fwd: Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770]

2006-03-08 Thread Philippe Laporte
I'd like to add that Robert and I understand each other. That should be obvious if you look at the Jam recent posts... give me a chance here, I'm all good-will... Original Message Subject:Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770 Date: Wed, 08

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-08 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Dalibor, You just managed to insult the SableVM team. Please stop this; it is unworthy of a great project leader as you. To all involved in this latest waste of bandwidth, please stop this falmewaring. I am tired of all this. As my team and me have been directly attacked, I have to answer

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Mar 9, 2006, at 12:05 AM, Etienne Gagnon wrote: b) a few years ago, Richard Stallman's answered my questions about using the GNU GPL for SableVM, and he even proposed a GNU GPL exception for SableVM. You might actually remember that I reused this text as a basis for drafting the current

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-08 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Mar 9, 2006, at 12:05 AM, Etienne Gagnon wrote: b) a few years ago, Richard Stallman's answered my questions about using the GNU GPL for SableVM, and he even proposed a GNU GPL exception for SableVM. You might actually remember that I reused this text as a basis for drafting the

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:49:42PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:28:10PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: - Sable has a large and active community In the last time the project seems to be very inactive except some mails on the

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Philippe Laporte
Michael Koch wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:49:42PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:28:10PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: - Sable has a large and active community In the last time the project seems to be very

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:13:01PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: How about Nokia money as a solver? :-) I dont think money will solve this. If you link native to a GPL VM, then that code must also be GPL, no? That is an absolute requirement in the embedded world... That is true.

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Philippe Laporte
Michael Koch wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:28:10PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: - Sable has a large and active community In the last time the project seems to be very inactive except some mails on the lists. Not true. They just like to keep it low volume for some reason

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Philippe Laporte
If you link native to a GPL VM, then that code must also be GPL, no? That is an absolute requirement in the embedded world... That is true. But running java bytecode in with a GPL vm and loading JNI libs during that doenst render all the java/native code you run with the VM to

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Philippe Laporte
Michael Koch wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:37:17PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: If you link native to a GPL VM, then that code must also be GPL, no? That is an absolute requirement in the embedded world... That is true. But running java bytecode in with

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:37:17PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: If you link native to a GPL VM, then that code must also be GPL, no? That is an absolute requirement in the embedded world... That is true. But running java bytecode in with a GPL vm and loading JNI libs

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Michael, I disagree. I have evidence that the FSF considers our interpretation to be correct; at least, Richard Stallman considered it to be correct a few years ago. Our interpretation of the GNU GPL in the context of a JVM is actually based on a long discussion I had with Richard Stallman a

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:49:32PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: Well then we all want to know what Nokia's legions of lawyers have to say...:-) I'm sure they will introduce just another opinion. Cheers, Michael -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath!

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:12:41AM -0500, Etienne Gagnon wrote: Hi Michael, Just for the record, SableVM is being worked on full-time actively by, at least, 7 people which are students of mine (and I am not counting myself there, as I work part-time on it). I would not consider this

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Philippe Laporte
Philippe Laporte Software Gatespace Telematics Första Långgatan 18 41328 Göteborg Sweden Phone: +46 702 04 35 11 Fax: +46 31 24 16 50 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Weinehall David (Nokia-M/Tampere) wrote: On tis, 2006-03-07 at 15:26 +0100, ext Philippe Laporte wrote: Michael Koch wrote:

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Michael Koch
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 03:26:25PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: Michael Koch wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:49:32PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: Well then we all want to know what Nokia's legions of lawyers have to say...:-) I'm sure they will introduce just

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread S. Meslin-Weber
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:49:32PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: There are just two sides with different opinions. They have their opinion. FSF/GNU classpath has theirs. Well then we all want to know what Nokia's legions of lawyers have to say...:-) Absolutely. We're developers, not

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Philippe Laporte
Michael Koch wrote: On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:49:32PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: Well then we all want to know what Nokia's legions of lawyers have to say...:-) I'm sure they will introduce just another opinion. ok, but what assets does FSF have to lose...?

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Michael, Just for the record, SableVM is being worked on full-time actively by, at least, 7 people which are students of mine (and I am not counting myself there, as I work part-time on it). I would not consider this inactive. :-) Usually, they have little time for working on issues that are

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 09:24 -0500, Etienne Gagnon wrote: Michael, I disagree. I have evidence that the FSF considers our interpretation to be correct; at least, Richard Stallman considered it to be correct a few years ago. Our interpretation of the GNU GPL in the context of a JVM is

Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

2006-03-07 Thread Dalibor Topic
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:37:17PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote: If you link native to a GPL VM, then that code must also be GPL, no? That is an absolute requirement in the embedded world... That is true. But running java bytecode in with a GPL vm and loading JNI libs