From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 09 1999 - 20:48:09 EST
>
> Certainly. I, for one, would find it great. There are certain parts
> of Classpath that are much more mature than Kaffe's. Furthermore, I
> understand that Transvirtual cannot use code people contribute to the
> GPLed Kaffe in the custom edition (except code from people that have
> signed papers giving them explicit permission to do so), therefore
> adopting Classpath for the GPLed edition of Kaffe would be a step
> forward in terms of JDK-compatibility, because the Free Software
> community wouldn't be duplicating efforts.
>
> But then, Tim and Peter might not like that move. I'd appreciate to
> have input from them about this idea.
>
Also, Alexandre, think about what you're really saying here.
You're saying that we should abandon what is arguably the most advanced
effort to have free and usable class libraries because the people who
donated it to the community have the ethics that they don't sell
other people's work?
Even if TVT decided to not allow any non-TVT assigned code into the
class libraries (there's already plenty of non-TVT copyrighted code
in the VM), should that mean that the "Free Software" community should
give up on Kaffe and wait for some future project?
This is not the way things work or ought to work, IMO.
- Godmar
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