Re: [rvm-research] GSoC 2013 Call for Jikes RVM project proposals

On 4/9/2013 9:38 AM, Erik Brangs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 09.04.2013 13:39, Eliot Moss wrote:
>> On 4/8/2013 11:31 PM, Rajika Kumarasiri wrote:
>>> Now that Jikes RVM is not going to participate in GSCO 2013 I thought I would add below information
>>> for any interested parties. See below to see some information on the byte
>>> code verification algorithm, code and copyright issue.
>>>
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2013-April/009156.html
>>
>> Right; so are we happy with importing code that was written
>> under GPLv2?
>
> I am not a lawyer but I wouldn't be happy at all with importing code
> that was written under the GPL. My interpretation of the position of the
> Eclipse Foundation [1] is that the EPL is incompatible with any version
> of the GPL in any useful scenario. The license list of the Free Software
> Foundation also mentions that the Eclipse Public License is incompatible
> with the GPL [2].

I understand your words, but we're talking about Jikes RVM,
not Eclipse.  Is it that Jikes RVM is promulgated under the
EPL?  If that's the case, and if they're essentially
incompatible, then it would seem that the Open JDK and Maxine
implementations are both out of bounds for our use.

Ok ... another verifier out there is in Apache BCEL, which
comes under the Apache License 2.0.  Is that compatible with
Jikes RVM?

Regards -- Eliot

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