Query about Help Needed
Tom Tromey
tromey@redhat.com
Wed Apr 4 17:05:00 GMT 2001
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> writes:
Mark> A while ago I spoke to Richard Stallman about this and he
Mark> explained to me that the FSF didn't want to distribute an awt
Mark> implementation under the libgcj license since Kaffe already had
Mark> an GPLed version of java.awt and he didn't want to undermine the
Mark> Transvirtual business model by releasing a GPL+linking exception
Mark> version of the library.
Mark> Has anybody else talked about this issue with RMS?
I have. When I talked to him about it, he refused to speculate about
what he would decide in the event that someone wrote a new AWT under a
libgcj-like license.
Tom
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