Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 09:48:53 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: "'Greg Lewis'" <glewis@trc.adelaide.edu.au>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: JCK License implications (was: State of Server-Side Java) Message-ID: <200008201548.JAA08728@nomad.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D77D0@l04.research.kpn.com> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D77D0@l04.research.kpn.com>
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> > 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. > > That merger had better give you a pretty great advantage, to make up > for the legal lock-out. At this point, *I'm* not worried about releasing patchkits on the 'released' bits. The linux patches contained newer bits, so I don't see the problem. > > 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. > > > Perhaps you could track two patchsets. One for Sun's newer code, and one for > Sun's public release. See above. > Alternately, perhaps we could tell Sun that this is a blocking problem > for a community effort, and ask them to release the newer code under > SCSL. Given that we *just* got access to the bits, I'd really rather not start throwing our weight around. We're a pretty small entity to try and guilting Sun into behaving like we'd like them. > After all, it is yesterday's technology, with 1.3 on the market. :-) 1.3 isn't even in a full release, so I wouldn't call it 'on the market'. It's more like in beta-test, sort of like the patches. :) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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