Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 11:47:20 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM> Cc: freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@lojic.com, dwilde1@thuntek.net Subject: Re: A BSD-licensed JIT (was Re: Development Projects) Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903271116530.22203-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <199903270833.AAA05586@osprey.grizzly.com>
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On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Mark Diekhans wrote: # >I've had about all of this I can stand. I've read the JIT # >docs and seen the size of the tarballs to a couple of JITs. # >Not trying to trivialize in anyway what it takes to write # >a really good JIT, but I want one under a BSD-style license # >and I think we can get something workable in a reasonable # >amount of time. # # What is the importance of getting a JIT under a BSD-license? This is a flamebait question intended to draw me into yet another licensing war, but I'll bite long enough to say this. I want a great JIT that I can freely use and not have to read nor understand some 15+ page license and all the legalities contained within. I don't want the people whose use it have to read and understand it either. Something like the BSD, MIT, Perl Artistic, etc. licenses give me the freedom that I desire and doesn't require me to attribute my (and others) hard work to RMS or the FSF. # While it would be nice, it doesn't seem to have any real impact # on the usability of Java on FreeBSD for developing commercial # applications. It does to me and many others that I have spoken to. # >Comments/suggestions/code? # # Instead of writing yet another JIT, pick the `best' one # and help test and improve it. Doesn't matter which one is the best right now. Find me one that isn't GPL'd and I would gladly pick it up and help extend it. -steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message
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