[Chicken-users] Re: GPLed Java

[Ivan Raikov]

  That's true, and I am sure the GPLed Sun JDK will eventually find
its way into the main Debian distribution. Though I am quite fond of
gcj and the free implementations of the Java libraries, even if they
don't include everything.

      -Ivan


Peter Busser <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi!
>
>>     We don't use Sun's implementation of Java, because it's not
>> ideologically pure ;-) Plus everyone knows that good programming
>> languages have a specification that doesn't shift like quicksand...
>
> Well, that is partially not true anymore. Sun already released two important
> components of the Java implementation under the GPLv2. And more are to
> follow during the first half of next year.
>
> Groetjes,
> Peter.
>
>