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Re: Some missing facts



On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 08:15:14PM -0500, Walter Landry wrote:
> 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.

Not *always* derived works. They *can* be, they just don't *have* to be.

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