Hi,

I'm the guy from the University of Utah who did the Kaffe to OS Kit
port. Unfortunately, I can't speak for my employer (Jay Lepreau), but
the situation as I see it is as follows.

We're behind our release schedule mainly for reasons of licensing which 
had to be resolved with our funders and the university. I cannot be more
specific at this point. Jay has told us that we will have at least a 
snapshot out by the end of next week. The license will allow free use 
for (at least) non-commercial purposes. The GNU-related/derived 
parts will obviously be distributed under the GNU license. 

As for the Kaffe port, it was done using an older version of the OS Kit
and using an older version of Kaffe (0.8.1). Although I don't currently
work on JavaOS, I want to make the port publicly available. As I'm doing
work-for-hire for the university, it won't be up to me to decide under
which license this will be distributed, but it will certainly not be in 
disagreement with Kaffe's license - which is a BSD-style license.
Before I make the port available, I would like to update to 0.9.2.

It is our hope that the OS Kit and the Kaffe port will spark research
in the areas that were discussed earlier in this thread. 

	- Godmar (gback@cs.utah.edu)