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Re: libgcj / Classpath relicensing and cooperation
- To: David Pettersson <dapet at mai dot liu dot se>
- Subject: Re: libgcj / Classpath relicensing and cooperation
- From: Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>
- Date: 13 Mar 2000 06:43:47 -0800
- Cc: java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <Pine.OSF.4.00.10003130940580.5914-100000@bloodgood.mai.liu.se>
David Pettersson <dapet@mai.liu.se> writes:
> Doe's this mean there will be no part of awt in libjava after the merge?
> Will the parts that was in libjava before merge (?) be still there?
The latter - there is no reason to remove the very little existing
AWT code, unless it is replaced by something more real.
> Will awt be rewritten from scratch for libjava or will there be no awt
> at all?
Presumably the former. The point is that there will be no GPL-licensed
AWT, not that we don't want AWT - of course we do. (However, we do
want it configurable, so you can build libgcj without AWT if you're
constrained for space.)
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