>My work on the JDK 1.2 port has been suspended, hopefully temporarily. I
>have been informed by Sun that the new "Community Source" license prohibits
>redistribution of *any* binaries even for non-commercial use. We could
>redistribute the patches (Sun even volunteered to host them) but anyone
>that wanted the JDK would have to build it themselves - not a very good
>solution.

Hmmm.... does that include the JRE?  Maybe it is not too bad to have
developers build from source.

>I was also told that NetBSD could possibly be granted an exception similar
>to Linux. Even if that happens, we may have to pass the compliance test
>before we can redistribute binaries (unless we always call them "beta" ;-)

What is needed to do this?   Some money?

>I just received the 1.1.8 source and I'm (slowly) working on updating the
>1.1.6 port to 1.1.8.

Great news!!!!

>>         - are there any plans to port JDK to any other Platforms (arm32 in
>> partic.)?
>
>Not by me. I currently don't have the time but if I did, I would work
>on a sparc port first since i386 and sparc are the platforms I use. I
>would be extremely happy to assist anyone interested in porting 1.1.x
>to non-i386 platforms.


I put some thoughts on Java and NetBSD up at http://netbsd.bbin.com/java.html  would love some
feedback.  Maybe if we split up the projects it would be doable?