Etienne Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Bonniot wrote: >> Etienne Gagnon wrote: >>> The biggest problem is that Kaffe is licensed under the GNU GPL, so >>> if an application/library can only be compiled with Kaffe, it must >>> be licensed under the GPL too (or at least be "license compatible" >>> with the GPL). >> By "only compiled with Kaffe", you mean "and not with Sun's JDK" in >> particular? If so, then is it really an issue in practice? As far as >> I know, Kaffe is not trying to introduce unique features, so it would >> be surprising that any application can be build/run _only_ with >> Kaffe. If you mean "the only free JVM that can build/run it is >> Kaffe", then that becomes a more likely situation, but then I don't >> see the reasoning why the license of the app would need to be GPL >> compatible. > > I do not have time to go over this again, but here are two relevant > URLs explaining different views. The strictest view is the FSF's > interpretation of the GPL, if you care about it.
[...] > I repeat: I am simply pointing you to the relevant documentation, but > I am not willing to discuss the issue. If you wish to discuss it, > please send your questions to debian-legal which is the appropriate > forum for this. I'll try to read your links when I'll have some time (but impossible at the moment). Also, I follow this discussion (I think I talked about it with Dalibor sometimes ago) and I agree with Daniel. But Etienne, I'll have a look. Thanks for pointing this (known and already discussed?) problem. Cheers, -- .''`. : :' :rnaud `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
