Jerry Haltom wrote:
Can building these .class files built with Kaffee prevent their usage with a non-free alternative JVM? If Kaffe is totally Java standards compliant, then that's cool... is that the case? Will there be ANY deficiencies in these classes by building them with Kaffee? If so, then I can see this causing problems when a user wants to run an alternative JVM (Because kaffee is missing certain functionality, etc).
The biggest problem is that Kaffe is licensed under the GNU GPL, so if an application/library can only be compiled with Kaffe, it must be licensed under the GPL too (or at least be "license compatible" with the GPL). Etienne -- Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. http://www.info.uqam.ca/~egagnon/ SableVM: http://www.sablevm.org/ SableCC: http://www.sablecc.org/