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Do you like computer games? Espescially free (as in freedom) ones?

There is a chance to make the code and the artwork of MMORPG Ryzom available under copyleft licenses (GPL & CC-SA):

The company behind the game went bankrupt and now the former employees started a project to buy their work from the investors. They hope to get enough pledges from people who want to donate money for the project. (Yeah, this is exactly the way how Blender became part of the commons.)

While I don't play MMORPGs (I even have little time currently to play games at all) I like to see a huge drop of GPLed code and CC-SAed artwork happen to the free software community.

Btw: Ryzom's designers are responsible for the "levitating, meditating, flute-playing Gnu". Coincidentally that is my desktop wallpaper :)

The porting of the Epoll stuff goes along nicely. Again Tromey helped me once when I was stuck in the mists of GCJ's internals. :)

"Hello World" finally worked again.

First the amount of worms grew because I needed to hack a little on Classpath itself to support my later porting work. Now this is done and GCJ's basic socket operations are updated as well to use Classpath' reference.

While I write this GCJ is being compiled and I am hope that it will be able to run Azureus.

Btw: Kqueue/Kevent support will be in the patch, too. :)