Re: Classpath 0.96

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On Wednesday 19 September 2007 13:07:01 Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Dâniel Fraga wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:27:15 +0100
> > 	I mean, I know I can use gcjwebplugin, but it doesn't work for
> > all cases, all applets etc. Now that Java was GPLed, how much time will
> > it take so classpath will merge code from Sun so we can have a
> > gcjwebplugin that works in all cases?
>
> Currently, there is no one actively working on merging code from OpenJDK
> into GNU Classpath, so it will take an infinite amount of time. :)
>
> Alternatively, check out IcedTea.
>

Mainly because I don't think all the legalities of doing such a thing have 
been sorted out.  In particular, Sun's code is GPLv2 only and the FSF would 
like to move to GPLv3 at some point.
-- 
Andrew :)




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