On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 10:57:15AM -0500, Gustavo Guillermo Pérez wrote: > Hello, I was reading the licens of Jikes and I see is not GNU/GPL, why is the > default compiler for the classpath instead of Kopi Java Compiler, I noted > that javac is pointing to jikes and I don't want to mix this kind of > licences.
Wrong: GNU classpath's default compiler is GCJ. > I try to use kcj with an earlier compiled kaffe binary but hangs class > compilation, and I noticed the build process finish a lot faster than before > with jikes. Jikes is free. Just not GPL. That is no problem. Much good software is free but not GPL, see the BSD and Apache licenses. > There is any problem with kcj, that makes forcing the use of jikes? > Which are the advantages? - KJC is full of bugs, much more then jikes. - KJC was included in kaffe as binary blob which is a no-no for distributions like Debian. You are free to work on KJC to make it better and to include it as source in kaffe. Michael -- Escape the Java Trap with GNU Classpath! http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html Join the community at http://planet.classpath.org/ _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list kaffe@kaffe.org http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe