Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 10:21:23PM -0500, Walter Landry wrote:
> > The kernel has an exemption.  This has been pointed out more than
> > once.
> 
> Irrelevant:

You seem to be missing the point.  Someone pointed out that my
interpretation would require all programs to be GPL compatible.  I
pointed out an exemption.

<snip>
> > > > Now, it is true that Eclipse will run with other JVMs.  But if they
> > > > are not on the CD, then it doesn't matter.  The GPL cares about what
> > > > it is distributed with, not about stuff it could be distributed with.
> > > > And the only thing allowed on the CD is stuff in main, because this
> > > > whole argument is over whether Eclipse can go into main.  Not whether
> > > > Eclipse is distributable at all.
> > > 
> > > The other VMs are on that CD, because they are in main already.
> 
> As I said before "... it doesn't matter."
> 
> > There are no JVM's on that CD that will run Eclipse.
> 
> Irrelevant.

It is relevant if you are trying to satisfy all of the dependencies
for Eclipse in main.  I am not quite sure what you are responding to.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu