Re: GNU Classpath + JRVM -- Licensing

[John Leuner]

> > > What is the status of this code you reference, "Additional
> > > code was provided by Maria Butrico. The code she sent me is JRVM
> > > specific code that had been inserted into the IBM OTI class
> > > libraries" ?
> > 
> > This is essentially the code that calls methods in the VM_* classes.
> > 
> > It doesn't really have a "home" .. it was extracted from the changes made 
> > to the IBM OTI libraries. There may be a few cases where we can reduce
> > the amount of extra code needed in Classpath by including code upstream in 
> > JRVM.
> 
> I'm asking only in reference to any need for assignment paperwork on
> those bits.

Ah.

Maria indicated to me that this code has exactly the same license as JRVM. 

Will we need to approach IBM about assigning copyright for this to the FSF?

How will that affect (this same code) that they're using with the OTI libs?

John Leuner