Good Morning Mark, On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 6:07 PM, Mark Helmstetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GNU Classpath is licensed under the GPL with the infamous "Classpath > Exception" provision. > > According so if you read the legalese at > http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html, there is a paragraph at > the end that sums it up very nicely:
I've never heard of this exception. Thank you for point it out and providing the URL. > As such, it can be used to run, create and distribute a large class of > applications and applets. When GNU Classpath is used unmodified as the core > class library for a virtual machine, compiler for the java language, or for a > program written in the java programming language it does not affect the > licensing for distributing those programs directly. > > So, I'm no lawyer, but I think you're OK. I understand all of that, but I suspect that our legal department would still consider linking w/ this assembly as "contamination" (they actually call it that). Even if they do approve our use of it, they would take (given past experiences) 6 to 9 months to give us the thumbs up. Because of their slowness, my director is very leery of OSS. Can you recommend an alternative interface that would avoid the need to link against GNU Classpath? -- Regards, Travis Spencer _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://xqzone.com/mailman/listinfo/general
