Re: [gentoo-java] Java going GPL; Stallman approves -- News at 11:00

[David Herron]

Karl, I agree completely.

We have been looking at this question for some time.  Clearly in the JDK 
sources we have code that supports Linux, and we have code which 
supports SPARC, but not these two at the same time.  It turns out to be 
a little difficult to bring those two together.

I would think that in the not too far distant future there could be 
project(s) like you say working together in the openjdk project to 
support the JDK on new architectures and maybe new operating systems.  
e.g. The Free BSD team and that ilk might want to collaborate with us 
more directly now that our licenses are more open.

How would *you* prefer that the collaboration would work?

I know our preference is for the collaboration to be in the bounds of 
the openjdk project site.  The governance and contribution procedures 
are a work in progress at the moment.  You can see on the openjdk 
project site the contribution process.  So, e.g., if you had a 
Gentoo-specific source change to make, you could submit it through that 
contribution process.

- David Herron



Karl Trygve Kalleberg wrote:
> David Herron wrote:
>
>> Yes.  I am very happy we are taking this step.  And it will certainly
>> make it easier for you guys to incorporate Java on your platform.  Well,
>> at least for the platforms Hotspot supports...
>>
>
> I would think that major parts of Hotspot would be reusable for getting
> the Sun VM running of Linux on SPARC as well (given that you obviously
> have Solaris on SPARC covered pretty well).
>
> There seems to be more people than us who're interested in getting the
> VM running on more of the architectures we support in Gentoo, so this
> will most likely happen as time goes by. Heck, one would even think that
> various CPU vendors would be interested in helping out with some
> engineering knowledge, as they do with GCC.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Karl T
>