[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Java on the 770

[From: Roberto Resoli]

2006/11/16, Jesper Zuschlag <jesper at zuschlag.dk>:
> Actually, from what I have been told by several ARM representatives
> its the other way around.

It's funny, because Sun is insisting; from:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6857451192.html

Eric Chu, senior director for the mobile and embedded market at Sun, says:
"We won't be able to put everything out there [under the GPL]. For
example, in our commercial product, we have integration with Jazelle.
Obviously, we cannot put that code into open source. So in the open
source version, we will take out some of the pieces that have third
party IP, that we don't have the right to open source. Whereas with
the commercial product, in some cases, we already have some of those
commercial relationships in place that allow us to include those
pieces."

>Something in the Jazelle architecture is
> covered by one or more Sun patents, which means that ARM cannot
> disclose the architectural details to 3rd parties that isn't Sun-
> licensees.
> I believe that in view of the recent open-sourcing of Java, Sun and
> ARM should sit together and solve this issue so that we can use the
> full potential of our devices. I find this whole situation ridiculously.
>
> /Jesper