Re: java.security

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 10:36:02AM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> We've used Cryptix with libgcj before.  The Cryptix is BSD-like but is
> probably not compatible with the GPL or LGPL.  But I think it probably
> is compatible with the GPL+exception that libgcj uses.

How is it not compatible with the GPL?

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