From owner-freebsd-java Mon Feb 19 11:44:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CF337B491 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:44:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (yogotech.nokia.com [4.22.66.156]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA25535; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:44:36 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01201; Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:44:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14993.30625.990493.580409@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 12:44:33 -0700 (MST) To: past@netmode.ntua.gr Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting the JDK In-Reply-To: <20010219200539.B28982@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> References: <20010219200539.B28982@netmode.ece.ntua.gr> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I have been reading the Sun Community Source License for about > an hour now, but it is still not clear to me: if I were to begin > an effort to port the 1.3 jdk, would I be in violation of the > license, if I published the necessary patches on this list? Maybe, but probably not. Publishing the patches should be limited to those folks who have already signed the SCSL license, although Sun doesn't seem to mind if others look at the patches. > If so, the only way to produce a legal native 1.3 jdk would be > to pay some fee to Sun and obtain the right to use the JCK, work > with it and publish the binary code? To create a binary version, this is necessary yes. Fortunately, we do have access to the JCK, although the rights for binary distribution are *still* being worked on. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message