Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
> First, there's a separation exception:
>
> If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the
> Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate
> works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply
> to those sections when you distribute them as separate works.
>
> This means that it's fine for Kaffe and Eclipse to be distributed
> separately. But it's not OK to throw them both on a CD and label it
> "Debian OS", if running eclipse loads a program made out of copies of
> Kaffe and Eclipse.
>
> There's also the OS exception, which Debian can't use...
There's a third exception. The implicit exception "if you're not doing
something which requires permission from us in the first place, then we can't
prevent you from doing it". I think people are arguing that it falls under the
third exception, not the other two.
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