GPL licensing problems (was: SunOS4 is missing memmove)

[Shane McDonald]

On Jul 20, 1999, Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br> wrote:
> On Jul 20, 1999, Per Bothner <per@bothner.com> wrote:
>
> > Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com> writes:
> >> We don't link it in.  libstdc++ got in trouble here since parts of
> >> libiberty are GPLd; maybe we should just avoid it.
...
> Anyway, we can't assume memmove.c is in the libjava build tree, nor
> should we link with -liberty, because of the licensing problems.

  I know this is way off topic, but I'm curious and I don't know who or
where to ask, but, why can't GPL'ed code be used in libjava?

Shane McDonald