GPL2 Java?

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:23:14 +0000, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

>  > > Does Sun JDK build for PowerPC?
>  > 
>  > Nope but its potentially possible now.
> 
> I don't really understand this remark.  "Potentially possible?"  What
> does this mean?  That we can write a Java VM for the PowerPC?  But, of
> course, that was always true.  It's not as though we needs access to
> the source of a VM for some other arch before we can write one.

So, if "we" "can" write one, why haven't we?

I don't understand what your point is. Are you, personally, going to
package JDK for PPC? Are you stenously object to someone else packaging
JDK for PPC? If neither, what are you wasting the bandwidth about?

So Rahul's wording was not perfect, big deal!

By the way, surely you know that VMs are dime a dozen, and the libraries
are the real problem. I am quite happy with my gcj and Classpath, which
execute my critical Java applications today, but there are still people
out there would would benefit from (compatibility with) all bugs in
Sun JDK libraries.

-- Pete