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Re: libjava grievances
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- Subject: Re: libjava grievances
- From: Mikhail Teterin <mi at aldan dot algebra dot com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 18:40:36 -0400 (EDT)
Tom Tromey once stated:
=>>>>> "Joshua" == Joshua R Poulson <jrp@pun.org> writes:
=
=>> Why is this not a part of the full gcc-2.05.1 build yet? gcj is...
=Joshua> Political reasons with respect to GPL versus LPGL.
=
=Actually, that didn't come up at all. It's more that, by requiring
=copyright assignment, Cygnus is treated specially compared to other
=companies working on gcc.
=
=Note that libgcj is a GNU package now, however. I'm not sure I
=understand how we can be a GNU package but not be integrated into gcc
=(another GNU package), but there you have it.
Ok, why can't it be made "pluggable" into the gcc-2.95.1 build tree?
The gcc's toplevel files are already aware of it...
-mi