Re: Some missing facts

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org> wrote:
> Andrew Suffield quite effectively debunked your 'Kaffe's GPld portions 
> of class library library automatically infect everything Java 
> application they touch' nonsense in November 2003 already right here on 
> debian-legal.
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-java@lists.debian.org/msg03572.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-java@lists.debian.org/msg03575.html

Andrew actually made a convincing argument that java applications are
not derived works of the class libraries they use.  That is not the
issue.  The issue is whether programs under the GPL can accompany
programs that use it as part of a whole work.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu