Hi, On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > In message <9e4733910607270554p5622ee20ida8c264cf3122500@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > > > I see that someone is already writing a pure Java version which will > > work around the GPL problem assuming the Java version is released > > under a compatible license. > > ... and assuming it is a clean-room implementation which does not > borrow from the GPL code. >From a standpoint of copyright (which the GPL relies on), this is not possible: you cannot include C code into Java. And if it is _translated_ from C into Java, it is not copyrighted any more. Ciao, Dscho - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html