On Nov 18, 2005, at 10:03 AM, Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:

>
>  1) the two projects need a middle ground, a philosophy-neutral  
> licensed interface code that can be used by both and implemented by  
> all the pieces of the puzzle. I would suggest something like http:// 
> www.openvm.org/ and an MIT license. Both projects can use it, both  
> projects can implement it, both projects can decide to adhere to it  
> for sake of immediate reusability *and* clear license virality  
> isolation.

We'd been circling around this issue earlier in some of the  
architectural discussions, for all the obvious reasons, and I think  
it's a good solution.

I was thinking that's it's a bridge to burn when we get to it, but  
we're actually here now if you believe that the VM/classlibrary  
interface is an important thing to get resolved (I do).  However, I  
do worry about patents here, and the MIT license is absolutely silent  
about it.

geir

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