Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Walter Landry wrote: > > > There are a few ways to fix this whole issue > > > > > > 1) The Kaffe hackers get the library exemption added to _all_ of > > > Kaffe. > > > > Not even the FSF has such an exception for their interpreters (Bash, > > Make, Less, ...) and that doesn't make their intepreters undistributable > > along with non-GPLd data in Debian. Why should Kaffe need such an > > exception for all of it? > > Because there are non-GPL equivalents for Bash and Less (and I don't > think there are many programs that Depend: on Less). There may be > GPL-incompatible programs that depend on Bash specific features, in > which case bugs should be filed. I can't imagine there are that many. > > I don't know of any GPL-incompatible programs distributed by Debian > that depend on Make during execution. At build time is a different > issue. I am not claiming that the result of running Make on a > makefile is necessarily derived from Make.
After sending this, I realized that the FSF has such an exemption for their interpreters. It is located at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#IfInterpreterIsGPL Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
