[PATCH] Use Jikes as default compiler rather than Pizza.

Jules Bean jmlb2 at hermes.cam.ac.uk
Tue Apr 20 06:41:08 PDT 1999


On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> > Could I request, on this topic, that kaffe unbundle pizza?  Having a
> > kaffe_tgz which doesn't include pizza is nicer for distributions like
> > Debian, which won't use pizza (it's non-free).
> 
> I've just checked that Generic Java, developped by the same people as
> Pizza (see http://www.cis.unisa.edu.au/~pizza/) but hopefully "free" in
> the Debian sence, works with Kaffe!

Do you have any reason to think GJ will be free?  I know about it, and
it's a very nice looking tool, but I don't see any reason to think it's
free...

The license I see on the web pages doesn't permit modification.

The distribution doesn't seem to have a license inside it at all..

Jules

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