propose to rename natPlainSocketImpl to natPosixPlainSocketImpl

Sun Feb 3 08:28:00 GMT 2002

Brian Jones wrote:
> Although GNU does not have one that I know of, Mozilla includes NSPR
> and Apache 2.0 now has APR. Both of these are platform agnostic APIs
> for I/O, threading, etc. I'm somewhat interested in making APR an
> option for Classpath's JNI code. The Apache license should not cause
> any issues with Classpath though it may be for GCJ.

Last I heard, the Apache license was considered incompatible with the
GPL.
Classpath is a GNU library.
I don't believe it is acceptable for a GNU library to be incompatible
with the GPL, or to depend on code that is incompatible with the GPL.
Even making it an option is problematic.
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