Date: Wed, 09 Dec 1998 18:15:35 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pfgiffun@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co> Cc: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with Jikes license ??? Message-ID: <28336.913256135@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 09 Dec 1998 21:13:47 EST." <366F2E5B.553D5344@bachue.usc.unal.edu.co>
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> Please don't panic, but I have a bad feeling about this article in Why should we panic? All I see is some speculation about what might happen with IBM's license. I doubt IBM themselves are all that sure yet. > http://www.slashdot.org/articles/98/12/09/1453206.shtml > > We have to watch carefully: surely some people want to see the code > GPL'd. Having Jikes be GPL'd would hardly be the end of the world. It's still usable as a compiler and I don't think that having GCC be GPL'd has exactly hampered our efforts. We already have enough splinter groups in the gcc community as it is anyway. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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