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Re: SableVM/Kaffe pissing contest



Walter Landry writes:

> Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> wrote:
> > 
> > As has been explained on debian-legal, the interpretation you propose
> > would mean that the GPL is a non-DFSG-free license.
> 
> Where was that?  I have seen no such convincing explanation.

Eclipse compiled against Kaffe and distributed separately would not
violate the GPL: the compiled verison of Eclipse would not be a
derivative of Kaffe.  If distributing them together violates the GPL,
then the GPL contaminates Kaffe in violation of DFSG #9.

Michael Poole



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