From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 11:21:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Licensing and the library version of git
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607291320020.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910607282131i4429e93fx7da0022791d53b69@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Jon Smirl wrote:

> I don't believe there is any legal way to link GPL code into a Java
> app since there are no free Java runtimes.

First, there are quite a few free Java runtimes; you did not really try to 
find one, right?

Second, since the Java runtime can be likened to the libc, all 
de-restrictions about system libraries should hold for Java, too.

Hth,
Dscho