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Re: Question about libgcj license and header file inclusion

From: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
To: Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>
Cc: Jeremy Felix <Jeremy dot Felix at codegreennetworks dot com>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:56:50 +0200
Subject: Re: Question about libgcj license and header file inclusion
References: <90EB1A0E97FA824CA5C08B05AFF679525EF72E@SBS.codegreennetworks.com> <442B0C91.3000807@redhat.com>

On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:39 -0500, Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> I believe the intent of the license is certainly to allow that. The 
> Classpath/libgcj exception statement was written with Java code in mind, 
> so it does not explicitly mention C headers like the libstdc++ one does. 

Yep. It was modeled after the libstdc++ one.

> If you want more clarification you could try asking this question on the 
> Classpath list (classpath@gnu.org)

That is a developers list. Please direct people to
http://www.fsf.org/licensing and licensing@gnu.org if they want legal
questions answered.

Cheers,

Mark

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- Question about libgcj license and header file inclusion
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- Re: Question about libgcj license and header file inclusion
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