Hello! I tried to google the aswer to my question, but it didn't work. So I'd like to ask you here. Q: "Kaffe is free implementation of Java Virtual Machine and ClassLib which are both available under the terms of GPL2 license. How does this affect possibility of using kaffe as development and runtime platform for other non-GPL licensed programs and libs?" Especially I think about Apache-type licenses, like that one from ANT http://www.mathweb.org/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/java/thirdParty/ant/LICENSE.txt?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=HEAD (or click on "1.1" at http://www.mathweb.org/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/java/thirdParty/ant/LICENSE.txt?only_with_tag=HEAD to see it) from cocoon (looks similar to above one - I think) http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/license.html What are the objections? What are possible problems? Where are the borders of usage of kaffe? For example, what if we had JVM from kaffe (GPLed) but used it with gnu classlib (GPL+linking exception clause)? Does it change anything? I and I think most of us, cc:ed know how GPL works for non-Java stuff. Does Java way of working differ the situation somehow? For now Kaffe technically _may_ be the key to get _A LOT_ of Java stuff from contrib to main. That's why clearing this out is so important. Please elaborate. Thanks Grzegorz B. Prokopski
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