On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Joern Rennecke <joe...@arc.com> wrote: > Is that an April fool's joke? > > The new license allows Java, but it does not allow linking with > code that has no dependency on the Runtime Library whatsoever > (because it is not considered 'Independent Modules'), and it does not
How would the runtime license apply or be an issue if the runtime is not needed? > allow linking with code that has been written in assembly language > (it is not considered Target Code). As I read it assembly language is target code but at the same time may be 'non-intermediate languages designed for human-written code', so I fail to see your issue here. What I do find strange is the restriction to explicitly Java VM bytecode (not CIL or others). Richard.