Any problem with stealing Classpath?

Thu Sep 16 08:45:00 GMT 1999

>> 2. The whole copyright/licensing issue, which has been discussed
>> many times.

Elmar> Everything copied from other free projects should be offered as
Elmar> an separate distribution until this can be cleared. There is
Elmar> certainly no problem dirtributing classpath files adopted for
Elmar> gcj while preserving the original licensing terms.
This is reasonable, but there are caveats. First, I definitely don't
have time to do this. Second, if nobody is working on clearing up the
problem, then this actively discourages people from writing libgcj
versions of the missing classes. Third, if the classes use native
methods, then they have to be partially rewritten anyway, as we don't
yet support JNI.
Tom