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

[Roman Kennke]

Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> schrieb am Sa., 24. Apr. 2021,
16:54:

> Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> schrieb am Sa., 24. Apr. 2021, 11:36:
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> > On 4/24/21 9:44 AM, Volker Simonis wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
>

I am not so pessimistic. IANAL, but als long as the resulting binary is not
distributed, e.g. it is run on your own premises, it should be ok, right?
And that still covers an aweful lot of usecases IMO.

Roman




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