License about jvm HOT 6 CLOSED

Hi,

I'll license it under the MIT license.
Feel free to use it in your classes!

But note that this project is a final project for a course of Systems Software I had at the University.
It is a very informal and simple implementation of a java virtual machine, and is pretty much incomplete.

If the focus is on the makefiles, note that I use BSD makefiles, and not GNU makefiles, so you will find no pattern rule such as

%.o: %.c %.h

in my makefiles (because BSD make(1) does not support it).

Also note that I used some unconventional rules for performing tests: I took advantage of the inference rules used in BSD makefiles to create a dummy suffix for testing stuff. For example, the class.p: rule tries to create a .p file from a .class file, but it actually prints the disassemble of the java class using the class disassembler I created.

EDIT: while %-pattern rules are GNU-only, suffix rules are portable between both implementations (although GNU call them old-fashioned ).

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Thank you for the prompt response and license! MIT is perfect.

Feel free to use it in your classes!

I look forward to shipping this as part of an assignment.

It is a very informal and simple implementation of a java virtual machine, and is pretty much incomplete.

That's totally fine; we mostly want to use it as an opaque small VM that we can have students compile & run some programs for. We'll also be having them write their own Makefiles, not use yours.

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I have some patches to fix your VM. Would you be interested in those being submitted upstream? Right now I have a private fork since I wasn't sure where you would land on the license.

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I have some patches to fix your VM. Would you be interested in those being submitted upstream? Right now I have a private fork since I wasn't sure where you would land on the license.

Yeah, I'm interested in the patches!
Thank you for dedicating some time in this small project of mine!

Particularly, I did not care that much about licenses and used to say that anything I did was in public domain.
But searching a lot about this topic I realized they are necessary, especially when others are going to use or distribute your stuff[1].
I'm gonna police myself to license my programs in a permissive license.

[1]: In another situation, a package maintainer for a distro wanted to package and distribute a program of mine that had no license.

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Yeah, I think software licensing is a mess and am annoyed that you kind of need to be a lawyer to understand any of it. It shouldn't be this complicated.

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Closing! Thanks.

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