Re: How hard would be an OpenSource JVM ?

2004-09-02 Thread Wilhelm Fitzpatrick
On Sep 2, 2004, at 5:29 AM, theUser BL wrote: Hmmm... And is it possible to port Suns JVM - as closed source - to an other OpenSource VM (like .net/mono , like ikvm do it as free JVM) ? If Suns Java VM running on an OpenSource VM (like mono), I think it is easyer to bring it on new platforms. Bec

Re: How hard would be an OpenSource JVM ?

2004-09-02 Thread theUser BL
Quite hard actually. First and foremost, you *can't* use Sun's java classes in an implementation of Java that you want to distribute under an Open Source license. Just because Sun lets you see (some) of the source code, doesn't make it Free Software... it is still owned and controlled by Sun.