Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

[Walter Landry <wlandry@ucsd.edu>]

Joel Aelwyn <fenton@debian.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:55:13PM -0500, Walter Landry wrote:
> > Joel Aelwyn <fenton@debian.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > See above. This is really getting quite silly. We have strong reason to
> > > believe that the Kaffe folks *do not* interpret the GPL as contaminating
> > > things which are run within Kaffe (with the possible exception of things
> > > that use JNI calls to accomplish things which are not possible in other
> > > JVMs, if any such exist).
> > 
> > Actually, the problem is that we don't.  For some of the authors, we
> > have that information, but far from all of them.
> 
> Yes, actually, we do - but perhaps not in the way you're thinking.
> 
> *) The FAQ, which one would hope they have all read since it's still up,
>    and they're still authoring for it, basically says this.
> 
> *) The only participant to date, while only a single author, certainly
>    strongly affirms it.
> 
> *) Nobody has produced any statement from the contrary from any of them.

This is just a lot of wishful thinking.  We might as well distribute
all sorts of unlicensed stuff on the internet for exactly the same
reasons.

Regards,
Walter Landry
wlandry@ucsd.edu