Re: benchmarks (was Re: Progress on a Classpath mauve suite?)

[Chris Pickett]

David P Grove wrote:
> I should have confined myself to giving you a pointer to the benchmark 
> suite.  Discussion of licensing issues of non-classpath code is 
> basically off topic spam on this list and I apologize for starting it. 
>  There are better places for these kinds of never ending discussions.

Au contraire, I think it's important to establish that academics are 
often forced into using non-free Java software to test experimental 
research in free VM's, because that's what their peers use.  Whether or 
not you agree with me or like it, you just helped me to do that ;)

At the same time, it's good to know about another suite, regardless of 
the licensing restrictions and whether or not they're acceptable ... the 
desire to do research and publish papers may well come between a man and 
his morals.

If the intent of licensing the DaCapo suite as such is really just about 
enforcing a paper citation, then perhaps it can be changed to something 
comparable to the old BSD license.

Cheers,
Chris