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From: | Dalibor Topic |
Subject: | Re: What are tainted developers allowed to work on? |
Date: | Mon, 10 Jan 2005 22:51:03 +0100 |
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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. :)
cheers, dalibor topic
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