Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

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

Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de> writes:

> Am Samstag, 15. Januar 2005 05:12 schrieb Brian Thomas Sniffen:
>
>> 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?
>
> GNU classpath is GPL+linking exception which allows it to link with 
> code that is licensed with GPL non-compatible licenses.

Thanks.  That sounds like an important piece of evidence.  So
certainly the GNU Classpath authors think that their code is copied
into programs built using it, and the GPL restricts that copying.

I would assume that the same applies to Kaffe.

-Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu