Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe
Måns Rullgård <mru@inprovide.com> writes:
> Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> So what? Eclipse is still only a Java program being interpreted by
> Kaffe, which is perfectly within the limits set by the GPL.
Not quite true. It also incorporates the GNU Classpath libraries
which are distributed with / part of Kaffe. There clearly are
bindings provided there. The GNU Classpath package is GPL'd, right?
-Brian
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Brian Sniffen bts@alum.mit.edu
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