OneGuy wrote:

> Since it was suggested on GCJ list to ask this question here, I will
> post it here.
> 
> Is it possible for Classpath to use parts of code from OpenJDK? For
> example, there are performance probems with Classpath's regex package
> and StreamTokenizer. In cases like these, where OpenJDK has better
> implementation, why not copy and use the code that is better (30x
> faster in case of regex) ?
> 
> Also, on a side note, why can't Classpath & OpenJDK merge? Both
> projects do the same thing.

GNU Classpath is a GNU project, and copyright in all GNU projects
must be assigned to the Free Software Foundation.  You can combine
code from the two projects, but we can't do that.

Andrew.

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