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Re: JRE which openjdk & gcj



On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:06:08PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 July 2008 02:17:55 pm Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 05:35:55PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > > On Monday 14 July 2008 05:26:14 pm Alex Samad wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 02:59:00PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > > > > On Monday 14 July 2008 02:47:06 pm Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > > > > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 08:02:05AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> > > > > > > Hi
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I have noticed that openjdk has made it into the repo's. 
> > > > > > > Wondering what people thoughts where on
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > openjdk, gij and gcj ?
> >
> > ...
> >
> > > > I haven't used openjdk and I used gcj a while back (its installed but I
> > > > default to the sun implementation) there is also the ibm version and
> > > > bea's versions
> >
> > with sun-java fully open now, it will be interesting to watch what
> > happens. Will gcj continue, pulling code from sun-java, or will the
> > gcj people accept sun-java and allow gcj to just die.
> >
> > A
> 
> I have been wondering about that.  And that is also the reason why I am 
> confused by *java* in Linux.  Sun-java is GPL IFAIK.

well, it wasn't DFSG free for a long time. hence the competing
platforms for java.

http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/story.jsp

A

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