[plug] Java and the GPL

Oliver White ojw at iinet.net.au
Sun Jun 18 23:53:13 WST 2000


Hey folks. I've been reading the article on freshmeat about KDE and the
QPL. I was thinking... is it legal to distribute Java applications under
the GPL, since they will undoubtably link to the proprietary APIs of
sun's JDK. I understand there's some leeway given to the standard
libraries like libc, but the JDK is almost world - kitchen sink.

Thoughts, comments, flames?

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Oliver White




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