Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe
Walter Landry writes:
> Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> wrote:
> >
> > Under copyright law, collective works include those that the GPL
> > refers to as "mere aggregation." How do you propose we distinguish
> > between what the GPL considers mere aggregation and others?
>
> When one work requires the other in order to function, then you have
> gotten past mere aggregation. So Emacs is not required for Kaffe to
> work, or vice versa. Putting them on the same medium is mere
> aggregation.
The entire linux-x86 version of Debian requires the Linux kernel in
order to function. Would you care to restate your criterion, or do
you think we violate the GPL by distributing non-GPLed packages?
Michael Poole
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