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Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe



On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 07:08:23PM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> So you are basically saying that aiding or hinting the end-user to
> create these would-be derivative works is enough to be violating the
> license?

That's overstated. It's enough to have to argue the point in court and
be unsure of the result, which is bad enough that we can't really go
there.

> Then how can things like thepiratebay.org be legal?

They aren't with any degree of certainty.

> It is also legal to sell all the ingredients for a bomb, along with
> instructions needed to build one.

It may however not be legal to sell a bomb-making kit, even if none of
the components on their own would be a problem. Again this is
lawyer-bait; the exact status is uncertain.

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