Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 21:30:25 -0600 (CST) From: Anthony Kimball <alk@pobox.com> To: markd@Grizzly.COM Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A BSD-licensed JIT (was Re: Development Projects) Message-ID: <14077.41181.542222.948279@avalon.east> References: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903271116530.22203-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> <199903271801.KAA10685@osprey.grizzly.com>
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Quoth Mark Diekhans on Sat, 27 March: : Given that FreeBSD is fairly dependent on GPL-ed code anyway (e.g. gcc) and : the way a JIT is licensed has no impact (that I can see) on its use, it : doesn't seem near as important as just having a really solid java environment. Open question: Can you distribute a JDK binary (whether new "Sun Community Source License" a la 1.2 or old 1.1.7-style) with a JIT which is GPL? My take: No. You absolutely cannot. You are clearly violating the GPL if you will not provide source, and the Sun license prevents you from providing source. I don't think LGPL will allow it either. The closest you can come is to provide instructions to the consumer for integrating the GPL JIT into a binary JDK. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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