From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6570 invoked by alias); 1 Apr 2002 12:52:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 6563 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2002 12:52:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 1 Apr 2002 12:52:36 -0000 Received: from 210-86-60-173.jetstart.xtra.co.nz ([210.86.60.173] helo=localhost.localdomain) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16s1IZ-0004W4-00 for ; Mon, 01 Apr 2002 07:52:36 -0500 Received: from waitaki.otago.ac.nz ([192.168.2.2]) by localhost.localdomain (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id g31CLvT07139; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 00:21:58 +1200 Message-ID: <3CA85814.9070703@waitaki.otago.ac.nz> Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2002 04:52:00 -0000 From: Bryce McKinlay User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020327 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alex bohemia CC: gcc@gnu.org Subject: Re: info References: <20020401103452.33720.qmail@web14201.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 alex bohemia wrote: >i was looking at the latest update for the gcj >compiler, i was wondering why tell this moment the awt >was not implemented when gnu could use kaffe libs or >manta's libs which already generates machine code?? >as far as i know both kaffe and manta are free >software. > The kaffe AWT's license is pure-GPL, unlike libgcj/classpath which is GPL+linking exception. This means that you can link/run any code with libgcj, regardless of the license of that code. Manta uses the kaffe AWT, however their partial swing implementation was written by them and has already been contributed to classpath. IMO, the "peerless" design of the kaffe AWT is not ideal for libgcj anyhow, so we might not want to use it even if there wasn't a license issue. regards Bryce.