Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> wrote:
> Brian Thomas Sniffen writes:
> 
> > Since there is a stronger relationship there than the weakest relation
> > that could be called aggregation, it isn't mere aggregation.  It's
> > aggregation and something else.  Thus, GPL 2b applies.
> 
> The ending of GPL 2 is clear to me: If the two works are not related
> under copyrights (since the "mere aggregation" clause uses terms
> defined as copyright-based in GPL 0), then they are merely aggregated.

GPL 2 uses a different term: "work as a whole".  The different
sections do not have to be related by copyright at all.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu