RFP: jrockit -- A virtual machine for Java
I just filed an RFP (bug 273693) for BEA's JRockit. JRockit is a
non-free virtual machine for Java that fully implements everything that
SUN's VM does. In addition it out-performs both SUN and IBM on many
real-world workloads.
From what I understand, both SUN's and IBM's re-distribution license
agreements have been gone through and found to be preventing Debian
from re-distributing. This might of course be the case for JRockit as
well, but there are two things that might make BEA more likely to allow
re-distribution:
First of all, BEA is hunting market share. Everybody knows about SUN's
VM, some people know about IBM's but JRockit is quite unknown. This
might make it possible for Debian to actually negotiate re-distribution
terms with BEA if they aren't satisfactory.
Second, I work for BEA, so if the re-distribution license agreement
isn't good enough I'll whine about this from the inside :-). And so
that you don't have to ask: No, JRockit won't be open source any time
soon. We use a bunch of IP from SUN, so even if we wanted to we
couldn't :-(. That doesn't mean that JRockit couldn't end up in
non-free however.
Regards //Johan
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