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Not wasted. GNU Classpath (i.e. the FSF's reimplementation of the Java libs) is under the LGPL, which is entirely compatible with the GPL. No reason why the FSF couldn't just graft Classpath on the side of the Sun JVM, maybe replace the GNU java compiler's interpreter with the official JVM while they're at it. GIJ has been the slowest production-quality JVM for quite a while now, whereas GCJ has produced really really nice native code since five years ago.