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 :)
