On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 10:05 -0400, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > On Jun 7, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Sven de Marothy wrote: > >> I am not sure why it would be illegal if someone like IBM were to > >> use the > >> Harmony JVM but use Suns class library. Actually I think that this > >> use case > >> is one of the aims of the project. > >> > > > > It is in violation of Sun's EULA. > > IBM would understand this, and IBM, if they wanted to do this, would > work out the licensing with Sun, I assume. That's not our concern.
Geir.. I really don't get your position here. The way I read your arguments are: Harmony should spend time and energy implementing Sun's class library interface, which is proprietary, closed-source, unspecified, may change at any time and requires a licensing agreement with Sun to be practically useful. And if Harmony doesn't spend time on this, it'd be 'willfully restricting' the ability of users? I really don't view it that way. I view it as 'Is it worth spending effort on this?'. /Sven
