On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Martin Bochnig wrote:

> okay.
> If (and only if) 3rd parties are involved into the libC* thing,
> I _would_ understand it.

Would a statement by a Sun employee (provided, of course, thet such
a license doesn't prohibit Sun from doing so) clarifying the situation
help?

> What I still would not understand - however - is, why the Distros-JDK
> (on which SUNW has made so much noise about, back in May'06) has not
> been built with the open gcc.

Perhaps they did it for performance reasons?  I know *I* avoid building
anything with gcc unless I absolutely have to.

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