[kaffe] Relicensing the Verifier, and Turning it On

[Guilhem Lavaux]

Rob Gonzalez wrote:

>>>Argh, lingustic typo confusion :) I meant to write verifier, but wrote
>>>interpreter. I should not debug & write e-mail at the same time :(
>>>
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>>>
>>Ah, I see. Yes, the verifier does stand somewhat apart from the rest of the
>>VM; you can even shift part of it to an off-line preprocessor or to a
>>different CPU at runtime, and of course you can function pretty well without
>>having one at all. So the Classpath exception works pretty well.
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>Would it help the licensing situation if the verifier were self-contained
>and connected to the kaffe internals through a single glue file providing
>the interface between the verifier and the rest of kaffe?  That would also
>make it a little easier to plug in the libgcj verifier, JustICE, or
>whatever else in the future.
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I'm completely for modularity ! :) Go ahead.

Cheers,

Guilhem.