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Re: Is GCJ/Classpath headed for patent trouble?


John Gabriele wrote:

Do GCJ & Classpath actually meet all of these requirements? These seem pretty
stiff for GNU projects... If GCJ & Classpath don't meet these req's, isn't the FSF
just waiting for the unpleasant day Sun decides to enforce the above conditions?

But, what could they do? :) Maybe the FSF or some directly related companies (Redhat?) could be potential targets for lawsuits... but the code is out there, people all over the world have copies of it and contribute... theres nothing Sun could really do to stop it now. And they wouldn't make much from a profit standpoint trying to sue a bunch of free software devs.


Even if there was some way to stop the project, someone will simply create another repository, maybe under a different name. Look what happened to Freecraft, after Blizzard went after them, they just renamed and kept going, just as strong if not stronger because of all the attention from the whole fiasco.

The best effort they could make is to try and guide gcj in the right direction (release algorithms, specs, docs, etc.) to help keep the platform from fragmentation. In my opinion GCJ altogether is a huge asset to the Java platform... I hope they see this too.

Just my 2 cents.

- Sal




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