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

To Philippe,
The SableVM Project has already been down this path(arguing about LGPL and
GPL) before, so no need to fan the flames again. Doing so again does a
great disservice to all GNU Classpath based VMs. Let the users choose
which VM they want to use. It benefits GNU Classpath, and thus the VMs
which depend on it ;)
                                                      David Fu.

> On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:49:42PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote:
>>
>>
>> Michael Koch wrote:
>>
>> >On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:28:10PM +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >>- Sable has a large and active community
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >In the last time the project seems to be very inactive except some
>> mails
>> >on the lists.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> Not true. They just like to keep it low volume for some reason (which I
>> admittedly don't like much). Check again.
>>
>> Anyways, even a community of 2 is better than the JamVM community...
>
> When speaking to them on IRC they always say they have no time for
> sablevm currently ...
>
> I would call this inactive.
>
>> >>- Sable is LGPL. GPL does not work for maemo. Read why at
>> >>http://sablevm.org/wiki/License_FAQ.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> >That is only the opinion of the SableVM people. Neither GNU classpath
>> >poeple nor FSF considers this to be correct.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> So why do they still think so after such a long time? What would you
>> say?
>>
>> What's the heuristic then?
>
> I dont know why but there is some dispute between sablevm and the rest
> of the classpath community since a longer time. I dont really know why
> and I would really like to get this solved. But I guess this will never
> happen.
>
>> If you link native to a GPL VM, then that code must also be GPL, no?
>> That is an absolute requirement in the embedded world...
>
> That is true. But running java bytecode in with a GPL vm and loading JNI
> libs during that doenst render all the java/native code you run with the
> VM to GPL.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Michael
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