Re: Java support in MXE build

[John W. Eaton]

On 07/03/2013 05:55 PM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:

> BTW there may be a way out: the jni.h header says:
>
> /*
>   * Copyright (c) 1996, 2006, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights
> reserved.
>   * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
>   *
>   * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>   * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
>   * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this
>   * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
>   * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.

Are all versions of jni.h distributed under "GPLv2 only"?  Hmm.  That 
seems like a problem since Octave is "GPLv3 or later", but I'm not sure. 
 What is the "Classpath" exception?

jwe