libgcj / Classpath relicensing and cooperation

Sat Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 2000

"John Keiser" <jkeiser@iname.com> writes:
> Could somebody *please* speak up and say what the heck is the deal
> with the AWT?

Transvirtual depends on the ability to relicense their AWT under
non-GPL'd terms to companies that are unable to use GPL'd code. If
the FSF were to relicense the AWT under libgcc-like terms, this would
undercut that stream of revenue for Transvirtual. Transvirtual has
contributed a good deal of code to the free software community, and
the FSF therefore decided upon a course of action that would harm
neither the free software community nor Transvirtual. The AWT was
therefore excluded from the libgcj merger agreement.