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Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?
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Nic Ferrier |
Subject: |
Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on? |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:55:43 +0000 |
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.
--
Nic Ferrier
http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, (continued)
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Mark Wielaard, 2005/01/09
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Dalibor Topic, 2005/01/09
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Chris Gray, 2005/01/09
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Dalibor Topic, 2005/01/10
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Nic Ferrier, 2005/01/10
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Dalibor Topic, 2005/01/10
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, zander, 2005/01/10
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Sascha Brawer, 2005/01/10
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Nic Ferrier, 2005/01/10
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Dalibor Topic, 2005/01/10
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?,
Nic Ferrier <=
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Chris Gray, 2005/01/10
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Nic Ferrier, 2005/01/10
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Chris Gray, 2005/01/11
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Chris Gray, 2005/01/10
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Dalibor Topic, 2005/01/11
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Mark Wielaard, 2005/01/13
- Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, shudo, 2005/01/10
Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on?, Mark Wielaard, 2005/01/13