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Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe



Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:

Måns Rullgård <mru@inprovide.com> writes:



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


As I understand it, GNU classpath is GPL plus an exception allowing linking to anything (http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html)

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Lewis Jardine
IANAL, IANADD



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