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Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java licenseSun yanks FreeBSD's Java licensePosted Jan 10, 2005 19:05 UTC (Mon) by bluefoxicy (guest, #25366)Parent article: Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license
On Linux, we can just tell Sun to screw off. Too bad Blackdown isn't a BSD thing, or an OSS thing. BSD will just have to wait for Kaffe.
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Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license Posted Jan 10, 2005 19:07 UTC (Mon) by bluefoxicy (guest, #25366) [Link] Then again, I can't determine if this is sun or not, though there's SunJDK and BlackdownJDK packages for linux. I can't find a solid attachment or detachment from Sun itself.
Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license Posted Jan 10, 2005 19:35 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link] Sun can easily revoke BlackDown's license as well.
Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license Posted Jan 10, 2005 19:37 UTC (Mon) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link] Hmmm, it appears that there hasn't been a Kaffe release since February '04.
Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license Posted Jan 11, 2005 22:57 UTC (Tue) by robilad (guest, #27163) [Link] Yep. 1.1.5 is in preparation.
People spent a year merging in almost everything remaining from GNU Classpath, GNU Crypto, GNU JAXP, Gjdoc, and other free class library efforts, adding ports to new platforms (one new port for freebsd, actually), making eclipse 3 run, and such nice little things. Now to stabilize things a bit more, and you can play with it on your favourite platform. CVS head is pretty lively ;)
cheers,
For latest status, hop on #kaffe on irc.freenode.org is where the action is happening, largely.
Sadly Posted Jan 10, 2005 21:00 UTC (Mon) by jd (guest, #26381) [Link] IIRC, Blackdown is not a "clean-room" implementation of Java, but uses some/all of Sun's code. In which case, Sun can pull the license of them, too. In fact, since the issue seems to be that they have pulled EVERYONE'S license, so they can re-negotiate, then Blackdown's in the same boat right now.<p> (NB: I always thought contracts were two-way things, that pulling it like this is considered "bad faith" in a legal sense.)
Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license Posted Jan 10, 2005 22:07 UTC (Mon) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link] Blackdown's port is built from Sun's source code. So, that won't work.
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