Using IcedTea in GCJ

Thu Jun 26 10:48:00 GMT 2008

Marco Trudel wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
>> Marco Trudel wrote:
>>>>> Now that IcedTea has passed the Java 1.6 compatibility test, I wonder
>>> what will happen to GCJ/GNU Classpath:
>>> - Will GCJ go and directly import IcedTea?

>>> Or will everything stay as it is and GCJ won't make use of IcedTea? As
>>> far as I understand, GCJ supports more platforms than IcedTea/OpenJDK.
>>>> I'm seriously considering porting gcj to the OpenJDK library. There are
>> some complex GPL v2 / GPL v3 licensing issues to deal with, though.
>> That would be great. But I guess it might take a while until it's ready
> (law stuff again ;-))...

As well as the legal issues, it's also quite hard to do.
Andrew.