Re: [Jamvm-general] Re: [maemo-developers] J2ME on Nokia 770

Philippe Laporte <[email protected]> Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:49:42 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.vm.sablevm.general,gmane.comp.java.classpath.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>

Michael Koch wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:28:10PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote:
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>>- Sable has a large and active community
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>In the last time the project seems to be very inactive except some mails
>on the lists.
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Not true. They just like to keep it low volume for some reason (which I=20
admittedly don't like much). Check again.

Anyways, even a community of 2 is better than the JamVM community...

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>>- Sable is LGPL. GPL does not work for maemo. Read why at
>>http://sablevm.org/wiki/License_FAQ.
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>That is only the opinion of the SableVM people. Neither GNU classpath
>poeple nor FSF considers this to be correct.
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So why do they still think so after such a long time? What would you say?

What's the heuristic then?

If you link native to a GPL VM, then that code must also be GPL, no?=20
That is an absolute requirement in the embedded world...

Regards,

Philippe Laporte
Software=20

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