Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Dalibor Topic <robilad@kaffe.org> wrote:
> > Walter Landry wrote:
> >   > There are a few ways to fix this whole issue
> > > 
> > >   1) The Kaffe hackers get the library exemption added to _all_ of
> > >      Kaffe.
> > 
> > Not even the FSF has such an exception for their interpreters (Bash, 
> > Make, Less, ...) and that doesn't make their intepreters undistributable 
> > along with non-GPLd data in Debian. Why should Kaffe need such an 
> > exception for all of it?
> 
> Because there are non-GPL equivalents for Bash and Less (and I don't
> think there are many programs that Depend: on Less).  There may be
> GPL-incompatible programs that depend on Bash specific features, in
> which case bugs should be filed.  I can't imagine there are that many.
> 
> I don't know of any GPL-incompatible programs distributed by Debian
> that depend on Make during execution.  At build time is a different
> issue.  I am not claiming that the result of running Make on a
> makefile is necessarily derived from Make.

After sending this, I realized that the FSF has such an exemption for
their interpreters.  It is located at

  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu