StrongARM JIT?
Tim Rowledge
tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Fri Jun 22 00:50:49 UTC 2001
"Noel J. Bergman" <noel at devtech.com> is widely believed to have written:
> >> Anyone care to do a StrongARM JIT?
> >Yes indeed - just as soon as the license is less offensive.
>
> License? To author a JIT? What kind of license? Please explain. :-)
See the file 'COPYING' in the distribution of the jitter source code. It
expressly forbids me from making my usual living if I look at the code:-
> 1. The software may not be used for commercial advantage. Neither you nor
> your employer nor any other organisation with which you are associated
> are permitted to charge for the software or for other programs that might
> be developed based on any part of the software itself or knowledge of the
> algorithms contained therein. Do not even look at the software if this
> restriction might conflict with your professional activities or those of
> your employer.
I rather think that that would be unlawful and surely not in the normal
vein of open source licenses, and almost certainly not concomitant with
the squeak license.
tim
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