Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?

[Nic Ferrier]

Dalibor Topic <address@hidden> writes:

> Nic Ferrier wrote:
>
>> For the same reason GNU don't call GCJ or Classpath
>> "GNU-Java". Because if GNU called GCJ or Classpath "GNU-Java" then
>> Sun's lawyers would have us over a barrell.
>
> I think the major reason is simply that it wouldn't be honest.
>
> Java is a marketing label that Sun puts on some of their technologies. 
> It was a brand name for Sun's GNU/Linux distribution last time I 
> checked. Neither gcj nor Classpath are GNU/Linux distros. So there is no 
> point in calling them that. :)

I'm fairly sure that this is not the major reason why GNU does not
have a GNU-Java.

I'm fairly sure that the major reason is the legal one. It is the
position of the FSF. You can read about it on the GNU website, I
forget where.


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