Re: address@hidden: Re: [Jikesrvm-researchers] Congratulations on Jikes-RVM 2.0 - questions about licensing.]

[Kevin A. Burton]

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Mark Wielaard <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Found on the debian-java mailinglist.

I would have CC'd this mailing list but the CC list was already long.  

> The Jikes VM is interesting because they say it is written mostly in java.
> <http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/jikesrvm/> And they encourage to
> develop a Free Classlibrary for it.  (It would ofcourse be better if we could
> convince them to donate their current class library to Classpath.)  I am
> currently investigating the KissMe VM which is already fairly integrated with
> Classpath. If someone else wants to investigate how hard it would be to
> support Jikes VM that would be really nice.
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I took a look at the directory listings in the jar.  It looks like they only
have the basics of a 1.1 style VM.  AKA only the basic stuff.

It would be at least nice to compare and contrast between the different
implementations to see if there is anythign we can bring over.  Of course if it
isn't Free Software there is nothing we can do.

Kevin

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