[openbeos] Re: Java

There are a number of problems. The first is that, according to Bryan
(but filtered through my memory from this morning), what Sun has open
sourced is not enough to be built. There is more coming that will
complete that, but, for now, that which is actually under the GPL can
not be built. The classes are not GPLed yet, as far as I know.

Secondly, 1.4.* was not GPL'ed. 1.6 was. Unless YellowTab was working on
1.6, I can't see where a US foundation could/should host this without
explicit permission from Sun.

Thirdly, from what the folks involved have told me, there was a great
deal of divergent work done. That is to say that YT doesn't have the
latest source from BU and BU may not have the latest work from YT. So
there is a lot of merging that should go on, once the other issues can
get resolved.

Finally, there is the question of whether or not we should import this.
I am really not sure that we want to have Java in our source control. Or
python. Or rexx. Or Vision. Or mozilla. Or a dozen other apps. The right
place for this code is in Sun's tree. Once it is complete and ready to
be shipped, IMHO.
----- Original Message -----
From: Karl vom Dorff <haikubounties@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 4:02 pm
Subject: [openbeos] Re: Java
To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

> Actually, Bryan said he would donate code too... Maybe that from 
> Bernd and 
> Bryan could be combined?
> 
> 
> >From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Reply-To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [openbeos] Re: Java
> >Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:53:22 +0100 (MET)
> >
> >Bernd Korz <bernd.korz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > ZETA does not have that memory problem you found in R5. But i can
> > > check our
> > > sourcetree and give out the work we did on JAVA. So this could get
> > > merged
> > > together or get used as base.
> >
> >Now that sounds very nice. And now that Java is open, having the port
> >done in some public repository would be possible, too.
> >
> >Bye,
> >    Axel.
> >
> >
> 
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