RE: JDK licensing (was Re: A Scenerio)

1998-11-11 Thread John Summerfield
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Mark H. Wilkinson wrote: > > Could someone explain the differences between a reference implementation and > > a production. > > I suspect that the reference and production JDK releases from Sun are > pretty closely related because the JDK reference implementation _is_ > actu

RE: JDK licensing (was Re: A Scenerio)

1998-11-10 Thread Mark H. Wilkinson
> Could someone explain the differences between a reference implementation and > a production. It's a distinction in code quality, similar to the difference between beta software and a full release. A reference implementation is an implementation which is supposed to indicate how a paper standard

RE: JDK licensing (was Re: A Scenerio)

1998-11-07 Thread Steve Brouwer
Could someone explain the differences between a reference implementation and a production. Thanks in advance Steve Brouwer

JDK licensing (was Re: A Scenerio)

1998-11-06 Thread Mark H. Wilkinson
> 1) Is the source code necessary for any reliable port >of the JDK to Linux? Definitely. The JDK consists of a few components: the Java virtual machine itself, the java.* class hierarchy, the native code which supports the class library, the Java source for javac and so on. Some of this cod

Re: A Scenerio

1998-11-05 Thread 1a8
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Michael Emmel wrote: > 5 years from now you walk up to a street corner and a guy in a dirty > coat approaches you. > He say hey man I've got all the sources for JDK 1.2 for sell. > > How much would you give him > > How much is 1.02 worth today... > > While