Re: eight packages could possibly go to main!

[Daniel Bonniot <Daniel.Bonniot@inria.fr>]

> If a debian package can only be built using Kaffe, then it depends on Kaffe
> and thus should be GPL compatible, according to both the debian-legal 
> concensus
> and the FSF interpretation.  Unless I am missing something?

I think you are mixing the debian package with the upstream program.

Upstream program: if it can be built with Kaffe, it can very very likely 
 be built with Sun's JVM, IBM's JVM, Blackdown's JVM. In that case, 
accorging to the consensus, Kaffe's GPL does not apply to it. End of story.

Debian package: those things do not have licenses, it's the upstream 
program that does. It happens that Debian poses some constraints on what 
packages can go into Debian (main, that is), so it might be that the 
package can only built with kaffe among the JVMs in Debian main. That 
can not have any incidence on the upstream program (which probably has 
nothing to do with Debian). If the program's license is DFSG free, then 
it can go in Debian main.

Daniel