Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

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

Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org> writes:

> Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>> Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org> writes:
>
>> When they are entwined with dependencies, every component of the
>> collection must be distributed under the GPL.
>
> The GPL doesn't talk about 'entwining with dependencies'. It makes no
> such demands.

No, it talks about *any* copies at all, and then excepts mere
aggregation.  If there's code written by Debian, no matter how brief,
to run them together, then it's not merely aggregation.

>> Can you get an explicit answer from them as to whether you can
>> distribute proprietary applications with Kaffe?
>
> Debian is not distributing proprietary applications.

You're right.  Sorry.  Can you get an explicit answer from them as to
whether you can distribute GPL-incompatible applications with Kaffe?

-Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu