Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

[Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>]

Walter Landry writes:

> 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.

If the two works are not related by copyright, then they are merely
aggregated.  "[M]ere aggregation of another work not based on the
Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program)... does
not bring the other work under the scope of this License."  "'[W]ork
based on the Program' means either the Program or any derivative work
under copyright law."

More specifically, the "work as a whole" clauses apply to works that
are based on the Program.  If you think that Eclipse+Kaffe combined
should be treated as a "work as a whole" then I encourage you to
mass-file bug reports against all the DFSG#9-violating GPL packages.

(If you have some other definition of the word "mere," I encourage you
to actually read my previous mail and respond to it.)

Michael Poole