On 11/28/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Robin Garner wrote: > Rana Dasgupta wrote: >> On 11/26/06, Mikhail Fursov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >My proposal is to use: >>> >http://cs.anu.edu.au/people/Robin.Garner/mmtk-20061012.jar as primary >>> >location and >>> >http://nightworks.sourceforge.net/mmtk-20061012.jar as backup today and >>> >replace it with smaller library when Steve will put it to >>> vmmagic.sf.netsite >> >> >> Hi Robin, >> Are you planning to update vmmagic.sf.net soon? As far as I know, it >> has >> always been empty. I am not very comfortable on taking an external >> dependency on a personal website. >> >> Thanks, >> Rana >> > > Just clarified this with Steve. We are planning to put the first > release of vmmagic up in 3-4 weeks, as soon as JikesRVM has finished its > transition to Java 1.5 (the first commit for this happened yesterday). > This affects vmmagic because we are moving to Annotations for the pragmas. > > We are also discussing licensing, and the possibility of releasing the > interface into the Public Domain (which requires the agreement of the > copyright holders in the JikesRVM project). Why public domain? That can actually be problematic from a strict licensing POV for reasons I don't remember or can't really explain clearly.
This is off topic, but that seems counter-intuitive. Wouldn't public domain mean no worries? -Nathan
Any chance of you putting under something really simple and well understood, like a BSD-like license? (I can help find one for you...) geir > > cheers >
