Hallo Jan, --- Jan Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hallo Dalibor,
> >My gut feeling is that one needs to be very careful as a distributor of > >copyrighted works not to create derived works that violate the licenses of > >involved works. Adding missing classes to kaffe's bootclasspath from Sun's > >rt.jar for example, would violate the GPL. It may work for other VMs, I > don't > >know, but I doubt that Sun's distribution terms allow it. > > So that basicly means, tat you have to reimplement everything by hand > and can't uses things like xerces? No. You can still use xt or saxon ;) > So when I write > kaffe -bootclasspath xerces.jar .. -cp ... Main > I can't do it, because its against the GPL/whetever License? I'm not sure. Technically of course you can do it, but I don't think you can distribute the resulting work. So when your bootclasspath script modifies the boot class path, it effectively changes what classes link to each other. The FSF has a very strong position on it: GPL propagates through class usage. See the thread starting at http://www.kaffe.org/pipermail/kaffe/2002-August/040251.html for some information on different interpretations. As I said, it's up to debian-legal to figure out whether your bootclasspath scripts don;t violate licenses, IANAL. cheers, dalibor topic __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
