[stellation-res] A very cool bit of news on Slashdot

["Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just caught the following on Slashdot:
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/02/12/26/2239203.shtml?tid=117

The gist: someone has successfully compiled and run Eclipse/Linux/Gtk
using the GCC Java backend and the GNU classpath libraries.

Why is this so cool?

One of the arguments that we've gotten, when discussing the notion of
Stellation as an alternative to SubVersion for major OSS projects
like gcc, the linux kernel, etc., is that it's not an option, because we
rely on Java, and Java just ain't open-source.

Well, not true anymore. If you can compile with with GCJ, and you
can link it with GNU classpath (which has a special term added to the
license to allow unrestricted linkage), then, by golly, it's truly 
open-source, all the way down. And if they managed to compile Eclipse
this way, we should be able to compile Stellation this way!

	-Mark


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