Re: [Jython-dev] Jython on Kaffe

[Samuele P. <pe...@in...>]

From: Kragen Sitaker <kr...@po...>
> I'd really like to work on Jython --- I think the kind of easy
> interoperability between classes from different languages that Jython
> provides is the way of the future, and if the free-software community
> doesn't do it, Microsoft and Ximian will do it for us.  And I'm a
> big fan of Python, and I think it needs more people using alternative
> implementations in order to slow down the PEP process, which is getting
> a bit out of control.
> 
> So I have a couple of questions.
> 
> My JVM is Kaffe 1.0.5.  What is needed to get Jython working in
> Kaffe now?  Is it just a matter of implementing the 50 or so methods
> of java.math.BigInteger, or is there more to it than that?  I see there
> was some discussion about this back in August, but not since then.

Only trying will tell you, never tried myself :(.

> And it looks like the current Jython license is the old
> possibly-GPL-incompatible license.  Is it possible we could update the
> license to the new GPL-compatible Python license CNRI agreed to for the
> new Python?  I'd really like to be able to distribute GPLed programs
> that include Jython.
> 

Who do you mean by "we"? much of the code in Jython is still copyrighted
by CNRI, the PSF will probably at some point negotiate with
them about the license and IP, for the moment we cannot
do anything (btw a prerequisite for the PSF for "talking"
with the CNRI, is non-profit status for the PSF and they are
working on that).

regards.