Question about libgcj license and header file inclusion

Wed Mar 29 22:39:00 GMT 2006

Jeremy,
I believe the intent of the license is certainly to allow that. The 
Classpath/libgcj exception statement was written with Java code in mind, 
so it does not explicitly mention C headers like the libstdc++ one does. 
However, I would consider #including a header in C to be equivalent to 
importing a class in Java, thus it is covered under the linking 
exception clause.
If you want more clarification you could try asking this question on the 
Classpath list (classpath@gnu.org)
Regards,
Bryce
Jeremy Felix wrote:
> Iâ€™ve been reading through the LIBGCJ_LICENSE file as well as the GNU GPL, and I have a question about including header files with this license in proprietary modules. Can one include headers with this license in a proprietary module without making the module GPL? Specifically, can one include jni.h from a proprietary C module? There is no explicit clause that I could see which would permit this, which is different from the libstdc++ exception. 
>> Forgive me if this has already been answered elsewhere.
>> Thanks in advance,
> Jeremy Felix
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