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lessthanjake

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Registered: 2005-11-09

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GPL Java

We need some good news after the Novell disaster:
http://www.sun.com/
http://developers.slashdot.org/article. … 13/0724252
http://news.lycos.com/dynamic/stories/S … 3-00-26-47

kth5

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Registered: 2004-04-29

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Re: GPL Java

I'm currently trying to get it going since I though when they release their Java under the GPL I could build it for PPC. Well, so I thought.

To Bootstrap the J2RE it needs an already installed binary which of course is not yet GPLed. Recursive problem actually.
Hope they get it fixed soon!

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cactus

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Re: GPL Java

kth5.. you could probably compile the binary on i686, as a cross compile. That might allow you to bootstrap the process.

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kth5

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Re: GPL Java

kth5.. you could probably compile the binary on i686, as a cross compile. That might allow you to bootstrap the process.

Even though I'm not exactly a friend of comercial Java, I planned this evening for that already. Just need to find a new i686 machine, the one I had left at work broke the othere day. Probably the CPU fried itself and I didn't yet take the hassle to fix it. heh

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cactus

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Re: GPL Java

kth5: yeah. heh.

Everyone: I find myself wondering what this means for the gnu-classpath and gcj projects. Anyone have prognostications about that?

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arooaroo

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Registered: 2005-01-13

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Re: GPL Java

This is great news! Now Jacman can take over the world, muhahaha!

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Jacek Poplawski

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Registered: 2006-01-10

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Re: GPL Java

So... when can we expect PKGBUILD?