Resumption of Leyden Discusssion (was Re: Result: New Project: Leyden)

[Volker Simonis]

Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> schrieb am Sa., 24. Apr. 2021, 11:36:

> On 4/24/21 9:44 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
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> > Maybe we should have a look at alternative, existing JVM
> > implementations (like OpenJ9, which I'm not all all familiar with)
> > which are more liberally licensed?
>
> One of the main purposes of Leyden is to develop a statically-compiled
> specification for Java; and OpenJDK is the reference implementation of
> Java. By all means look at something else as an alternative, but it
> won't solve that problem, and may only be a distraction. I do not
> intend to discuss legal issues here.
>

Believe me, me neither. But it simply doesn't make sense to implement a
reference implementation which will only be usable by/with GPLv2 licensed
programs.


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