Operations and other mysteries
A blog by Andrew Cowie
Tuesday, 14 Nov 2006
Taking Java out for a spin
Not four hours after Sun released Java under the GPL + Classpath Exception, Edwin Steiner, one of the hackers on the Cacao Java VM, gave the HotSpot VM a spin and posted some analysis.
He notes that he did hit one stumbling block:
“Building is very easy, but I found out that the disassembler does not seem to be supplied.”
But check this out:
“So I quickly hacked in the cacao disassembler, and it works! :)”
Awesome! And the cool part is, as Mark Wielaard observed, since both are GPL, the disassembler hack is just fine to distribute.
Freedom to do your own thing. That, ladies and gentlemen, is the freedom in Software Libre.
AfC
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