Wes Biggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> a++) One notes that libgcj is copyrighted by Cygnus, and Classpath is
> copyrighted by FSF -- is this a showstopper? I thought the point of
> assigning copyright to the FSF was so that if necessary we could be
> legally defended by them and so on; I'm sure Cygnus can take care of
> itself in that regard.
It is my understanding that all contributions to libgcj at the moment
must be assigned to Cygnus or put in the public domain so that Cygnus
can re-license it to their embedded systems customers (LGPL is
apparently too restrictive for them). It is also my understanding
that if enough people contribute, some folks at Cygnus will attempt to
get the whole thing released under a single more liberal license (as
is done with libstdc++.
--
Geoff Berry
