Re: [Kaffe] can the classpath project be used with Kaffe. (fwd)

Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

From: Tim Wilkinson (tim@transvirtual.com)
Date: Wed Feb 10 1999 - 17:33:36 EST


Alexandre,

> On Feb 10, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>
> > So, is this your effort to solicit volunteers? Didn't you just complain
> > about a lack of volunteers. Please think a bit about what you say in
> > public and that affects your perceived status as a kaffe developer.
>
> Jeez, he's going to contribute to Kaffe, but if he wants to contribute
> to both projects, he should start with Classpath. Telling him
> otherwise would prevent him from contributing to Classpath, which is
> not what he wants to do! And I'm not going to tell him he shouldn't
> contribute to Classpath, so what other options did I have? Yep, I
> could keep quiet, but why?

So let me get this straight - if you contribute code to use you cannot
contribute that code to classpath? Why is this - is this the copyright
nonsense they insist on?

> > Or this is a masterplan to convince us that we'll eventually adopt
> > classpath because you've convinced everybody to contribute to them
> > first, because we can always use their stuff?
>
> There's no ongoing masterplan, sorry :-)
>
> > Besides, they don't even want extensions, so I don't think they'd
> > even bother with sun.tools.jar.
>
> It couldn't be sun.tools.jar, for one. kaffe.tools.jar,
> gnu.tools.jar, whatever, but sun.tools.jar is forbidden for us.
> Furthermore, if Classpath does not want it, better for us!

A minor legal point, but since we've not a licensee of sun we can put stuff
wherever we choose - even in sun.tools.jar if we wanted.
Tim

--
  Tim Wilkinson                         Tel:     +1 510 704 1660
  Transvirtual Technologies, Inc.,      Fax:     +1 510 704 1893
  Berkeley, CA, USA.                    Email:   tim@transvirtual.com


Date view Thread view Subject view Author view

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Sat Sep 23 2000 - 19:58:05 EDT