[plug] Java and the GPL

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Oliver White]
> 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.

You do not have to use SUN's JDK.  Kaffe (GPL) and Japhar (LGPL) are
GPL-compatible alternatives.  Kaffe more then Japhar at the moment,
but I'm sure this will change.  In addition you can use the Java
frontend to GCC and link with gcj to get a native binary if you want.

  http://www.kaffe.org/
  http://www.japhar.org/
  http://sourceware.cygnus.com/java/
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