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From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
To: Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@member.fsf.org>,
	Chris Gray <chris.gray@kiffer.be>,
	bmckinlay <bmckinlay@gmail.com>, svferro <svferro@gmail.com>,
	java <java@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GCJ with OpenJDK Java API instead of GNU Classpath
Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 11:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1241780423.3538.13.camel@hermans.wildebeest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A0405A4.3020404@redhat.com>

On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 11:12 +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > 
> > The clause in the OpenJCK6 license which restricts its use to projects
> > 'substantially derived' from OpenJDK (judgement of which is made
> > secretly by Sun as part of the decision process) makes me very dubious
> > about it being a test of the specification.  It's very clearly a test
> > of compatibility with the reference implementation provided by Sun and
> > only JDKs derived from this reference implementation have ever passed
> > it.
> 
> I don't believe this to be true, BTW: I know IBM have a clean room
> implementation, and I think others do too.

Of the VM and compiler yes, but no alternative core library
implementation not derived from Sun's code has ever passed the TCK. In
fact Sun has till now refused to even provide the TCK to any alternative
core library implementation not derived from their own code.

Cheers,

Mark

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-08 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-07 14:31 Chris Gray
2009-05-07 15:29 ` Andrew John Hughes
2009-05-07 16:25   ` Mark Wielaard
2009-05-07 16:32     ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-07 17:10       ` Mark Wielaard
2009-05-07 17:20         ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-07 17:24           ` David Boreham
2009-05-07 17:34             ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-07 17:44           ` Mark Wielaard
2009-05-08  0:22             ` Andrew John Hughes
2009-05-08 10:13               ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-08 11:00                 ` Mark Wielaard [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-06 20:43 Sal
2009-05-07  9:17 ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-07 11:45   ` Bryce McKinlay
2009-05-07 13:25     ` Andrew John Hughes
2009-05-07 13:43       ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-07 13:50         ` Bryce McKinlay
2009-05-07 20:24   ` Sal
2009-05-08  8:04     ` Robert Schuster
2009-05-08 10:08     ` Andrew Haley
2009-05-07 16:28 ` Mark Wielaard
2009-05-08 13:47   ` Robert Schuster

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