Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

[Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>]

Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org> writes:

>> When I instruct my computer running the Debian OS to load and run
>> eclipse, the code from some JVM package and the code from the Eclipse
>> package and from dozens of others are loaded into memory.  The process
>> on my computer is mechanical, so we should look back and see who has
>> designed and created this particular combination.  In this case, it
>> was Debian, who took the top level Eclipse component and selected
>> a particular JVM and particular support libraries to include.
>
> That's the 'running is illegal/GPL puts restrictions on use' fallacy. :)

I'm not talking about running; I'm talking about making a copy of
Eclipse and a copy of Kaffe and putting them both on an end-user's
system such that when I type "eclipse" I get a program made out of
both.

But you can see that it's not mere aggregation, because they invoke
each other when run.

-Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu