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Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe



> > The license on Eclipse doesn't make an issue of this.
> > 
> > The license on Kaffe explicitly says that running Kaffe is not restricted.
> > 
> > So you have no plausible reason for believing that this matters.

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 09:55:10PM -0500, Walter Landry wrote:
> Ok.  One more time.  The license on Kaffe says that distributing Kaffe
> with other things can be restricted.

That's not a plausible reason for believing that your "Eclipse can't go
in main because of the GPL" has any validity to it.

> > Irrelevant, until you show some reason for this to matter in
> > the specific case of Eclipse and Kaffe.
> 
> You gave alternate heuristics.  I gave reasons why they won't work.
> Please pay attention.

Your "reasons" are nothing more than sentence fragments, taken out
of context.

> > But I should note that I'm not claiming that any of these criteria should
> > stand by themselves.
> 
> Perhaps you should take some time and consider these things a little
> more.  Otherwise, you are just wasting everyone's time.

If I had any respect for your interpetation of the issue we're currently
discussing, I might take you up on this suggestion.

-- 
Raul



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