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

Jonathan Mark Brooks jmbrooks at jmbrooks.net
Tue Apr 20 18:18:21 PDT 1999


No license restrictions makes it freeware, which is in some respects
superior to GPL.  That's why the mutt people don't GPL--they want it
to be REALLY free.

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> > > 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!
> > 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..
> 
> Indeed :-(
> Open source is not always Open Source (TM)
> 
> Pavel Roskin

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