From owner-freebsd-java Fri Aug 18 19: 6:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au (ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.246.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E88537B422 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2000 19:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05271; Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:36:23 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from glewis) From: Greg Lewis Message-Id: <200008190206.LAA05271@ares.trc.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: JCK License implications (was: State of Server-Side Java) In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D77C9@l04.research.kpn.com> from "Koster, K.J." at "Aug 18, 2000 06:17:36 pm" To: "Koster, K.J." Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 11:36:23 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL70 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Koster, K.J. wrote: > > Given the fact that I'm not allowed to share how the tests > > work or my results (other than YES/NO) or how it all works > > due to licensing, I'm not sure why... > > Nate: fourteen bugs to go! > us: Yay! What's the error message? > Nate: Sorry, but that I cannot disclose. Licensing, you see. > us: Could we have a stacktrace then? > Nate: Well, no. Licensing, you see. > us: Euh, Ok. Is it in Swing, can I reproduce it with a demo? > Nate: Can't say. Licensing, you see. > > Hardly a community effort. :-/ As Nate said, its not our choice. > I never realised that access to JCK would condemn you to fixing all the bugs > too, Nate. You'll let us know when it's all done, yes? Off you go, no time > to waste. :-) Well, it might be even worse than that. Its not clear to me that I'll still be able to release patchsets once we merge a newer version of the JDK 1.2.2 source code as that code will have been obtained under the same licensing conditions as the JCK. I'm considering how this can be avoided while still making progress on a binary release. I really don't want to lose the possibility of things like Fuyuhiko-san's native thread patches happening in the future. -- Greg Lewis glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au Computing Officer +61 8 8303 5083 Teletraffic Research Centre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message