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SWT and AWT
- From: Stanley Brown <stanley dot brown at zimmer dot com>
- To: java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 13:43:56 -0500
- Subject: SWT and AWT
- References: <1069781853.8116.ezmlm@gcc.gnu.org>
Anyway, I have to agree here - SWT is ok, and I use my stuff so I can
program with Swing and get native widgets with GCJ, but libgcj really
needs its own implementations of these things due to the licencing of SWT.
Bob
I had to go do some reading on the CPL. Actually GCJ could include SWT
and still stay under GPL as long as the CPL parts are in binary format
(jar files, shared libs, etc) according to section 3 of the CPL version
1.0. Now, if SwingWT was under GPL it could be used to replace the
existing AWT and Swing classes in GCJ and thus give GCJ multiplatform
AWT and Swing and remain under GPL.
Now I could have just missed something in the license. Has anyone seen
anything that prevents this?