libjava grievances

Tom Tromey tromey@cygnus.com
Wed Sep 22 13:19:00 GMT 1999


>>>>> "Mikhail" == Mikhail Teterin <mi@aldan.algebra.com> writes:

Mikhail> Why is this not a part of the full gcc-2.05.1 build yet? gcj is...

Licensing disputes, more or less.

Cygnus wants to own the copyright so that it can give libgcj to its
customers under a non-LGPL license.  RMS doesn't want part of the main
gcc distribution to treat any particular company specially.

Tom


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