Question about libgcj license and header file inclusion

Wed Mar 29 22:47:00 GMT 2006

Great, thank you Bryce.
Jeremy
Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> 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
>>>>