> It is not hard: Some distribution of Eclipse is only encumbered by the > GPL if it requires a GPLed work to correctly operate. You may have > some odd version of Eclipse, but the standard releases have no such > requirement.
While most of what you said seemed perfectly reasonable, this does not. Some distribution of Eclipse is encumbered by the GPL if it, that distribution, includes a copy of a GPL'd work (and it is not mere aggregation, which this certainly isn't). So shipping Eclipse+Kaffe is not OK. Shipping Eclipse+otherJVM is fine. I do not think anyone will disagree with this. Can we now confine this argument to whether a program distributed as a package with Depends: jre | java-runtime contains a copy of a package with Provides: java-runtime? I'm inclined to say no, that that is not the intended operating state, merely an incidental of technically compatible packages -- and so even if Eclipse had a Depends: some-non-kaffe-jvm | java-runtime and Kaffe a Provides: java-runtime, there would be no conflict with the GPL here. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
