In message <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607272239050.29667@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > > ... 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. Gulp. What have you been smoking lately? Your understanding of copyright (and of the GPL) is fundamentally broken. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@xxxxxxx Mr. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing. - : 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