Re: GCJ FAQ 2.4

[Kurt Mahan <kmahan at xmission dot com>]

I'd just like to send this conversation off on a tangent.. :)

I'll state up front that I'm seriously contaminated.  I ported various
versions of Sun's jvm to netware, worked on both the netware and NT 
Sun JITs, javaos, and a host of other things...  All for a previous employer..

So now I no longer work for them.  I haven't for a couple of years.  Am I
contaminated till the end of time?  Have any of the open source/cleanroom
projects pinned down EXACTLY what they mean?  Have they worked with Sun to
make sure that the people that have/are contributing never signed ANY of
the source download licenses?  Not even the 0.96 stuff?

The people I've talked to in the past about this always refer me to people
who never respond to their email.  Maybe discussing it in the open will get
some kind of response.

Thanks,

Kurt


> 
> Section 2.4 of the GCJ FAQ points to a page at Sun:
> 
> http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/restricted/java2cs/contribs/
> 
> which requires a "free login."  The login is free as in beer, but not as in
> speech, as it requires a click-through agreement to the Sun Community Source
> License.  It is my understanding that clean-room projects such as Classpath and
> Kaffe do not accept contributions from those who have "contaminated" themselves
> by agreeing to this license.  Is it really wise to link to this page from a
> free software project's site?
> 
> -- Fred
>