Hendy Irawan wrote:
> On 11/14/06, Sean McNamara <sm...@gm...> wrote:
>> Be that as it may, I am saddened to see another OSS project dry up, and
> It'd be interesting if a sidestep alternative (e.g. similar to
> MySQL/Qt license) is possible with JavaCompiler.
Please explain further (but read the FAQ before)...
>> And yes, it would appear that it competes directly with Excelsior JET
>> (of which I have used a trial and it seems shockingly similar in
>> purpose...!) Only difference is that Excelsior's whole toolchain is
>> built on proprietary technology, right? They didn't use MingW too, did
>> they?!
> Proprietary isn't always "bad". But it can be very bad if the company
> is out of business. (For OSS though, it's still bad if this happens,
> but at least if you're brave enough you can just fix the source code
> yourself)
That's the whole idea behind selling open source software. Again, read
the FAQ...
> Competing with Excelsior, though, IMHO, would be a very... very daunting task.
No, it isn't. That's also in the FAQ. Excelsior JET is absolutely
useless in my opinion for ahead-of-time compilation.
> (BTW, another IMHO, even though gcj+classpath+maybe some other
> "subcomponents" of JavaCompiler licenses' allow this, I don't really
> "fit-in" to the idea of building something 100% commercial out of
> mostly FOSS projects)
Why not? It completely fits in and is completely legal and fine. Even
encouraged by GNU (-> FAQ).
Marco
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