On Saturday 01 November 2003 18:41, Etienne Gagnon wrote: > Dalibor Topic wrote: > > GPL says: > > Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not > > covered by this License; they are outside its scope. ... > > > As running is clearly not covered under GPL, your argument doesn't work. > > Modification *IS* covered by the GPL. (FYI, it's not my argument, it's > Richard Stallman's). > > Now, linking *is* a form of modification. Were it not, you could simply > link your proprietary program with the GNU readline library. See > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html if you have doubts about > useability of a GPL library within proprietary code. > > The fact that linking is done statically *or* dynamically is irrelevant; > the result is that you have a combined work; all parts of the work must > be licensed under terms that allow for the part to be combined with the > other parts.
The big question seems to come done to: "What part of Java is library and what part is language?" It seems to me that at least the syntax *and* java.lang *is* the language... Thus as long as you don't use anything else then java.lang classes, you can use kaffe to run *any* Java byte code, independent which license... (If agreed on the fact that GPL does not cover running software... which is mostly agreed on... e.g. running MS Office in Linux) Egon -- PhD Molecular Representation in Chemometrics Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry http://www-cac.sci.kun.nl/people/egonw.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
