Re: GPL and Copyright Law (Was: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe)
Etienne Gagnon wrote:
Dalibor Topic wrote:
Thank you Etienne, but since you are not a copyright holder on either
Eclipse or any GPLd, copyrightable part of Kaffe, your opinions on how
GPL applies to Kaffe are ... well ... irrelevant.
So, according to such reasoning, you own opinion is irrelevant to the
huge parts of Kaffe for which you, Dalibor, are not a copyright holder.
Now, more to the point, I do express my opinion as a Debian project
contributor, (in NMU queue), an maintainer of a Java package (sablecc).
As far as I can tell, I do have the freedom to express my opinion. Of
course, you have the freedom of ignoring it, but it is up to
debian-legal to decide whether they care or not about my opinion, not up
to you.
I'm sorry about the personal attack. What I meant to say is:
You are entitled to interpret the GPL in any way suits you, and that's
fine. You're also entitled to share your opinion with the whole world as
well. You do so, regularly, and have set up a web site to put your
interpretation of Kaffe's license out in the world, which is fine, too.
But as you interpret Kaffe's license more restrictively than its
authors, it has to be noted that you are not an author. So you are not
in a position to impose your non-DFSG-free interpretation of the GPL on
recepients and distributors of Kaffe, fortunately.
cheers,
dalibor topic
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