GCJ and Sun going GPL (again)

[Marco Trudel]

Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Marco,
> 
> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 12:38 +0100, Marco Trudel wrote:
>> The general question summarized again: How will GCJ react on Sun GPLing 
>> Java?
> 
> I guess we will learn from it (when it actually happens in full) and try
> to work together with them wherever it makes sense. If you haven't seen
> it I wrote a little thing about it in the context of GNU Classpath, on
> which is the upstream for the core class libraries as used by gcj (and
> almost every other free runtime/compiler out there at the moment):
> http://gnu.wildebeest.org/diary/index.php?p=175

Actually I started reading it but didn't finish because I got 
distracted. I finished now :-)
In this case, it looks like GNU classpath will handle adoption of the 
Sun code and stay the upstream for other projects. Makes sense and 
sounds great :-)


Marco