Walter Landry writes: > Michael Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brian Thomas Sniffen writes: > > > > > Since there is a stronger relationship there than the weakest relation > > > that could be called aggregation, it isn't mere aggregation. It's > > > aggregation and something else. Thus, GPL 2b applies. > > > > The ending of GPL 2 is clear to me: If the two works are not related > > under copyrights (since the "mere aggregation" clause uses terms > > defined as copyright-based in GPL 0), then they are merely aggregated. > > GPL 2 uses a different term: "work as a whole". The different > sections do not have to be related by copyright at all.
If the two works are not related by copyright, then they are merely aggregated. "[M]ere aggregation of another work not based on the Program with the Program (or with a work based on the Program)... does not bring the other work under the scope of this License." "'[W]ork based on the Program' means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law." More specifically, the "work as a whole" clauses apply to works that are based on the Program. If you think that Eclipse+Kaffe combined should be treated as a "work as a whole" then I encourage you to mass-file bug reports against all the DFSG#9-violating GPL packages. (If you have some other definition of the word "mere," I encourage you to actually read my previous mail and respond to it.) Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
