why libgcj.jar

Wed Nov 21 15:23:00 GMT 2001

Richard Emberson wrote:
>Why is there any java code in gcj at all?
>>Why was not the approach taken where all of the Sun
>bytecode was compiled into libraries that depended upon
>Sun's underlying platform libraries.
>
Because Java is not free software. You can't, for example, go and 
compile Sun's code into your native application and then redistribute 
it, at least not without some kind of special license from Sun.
Besides, its more fun to write our own libraries!
regards
Bryce.