On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: > First, there's a separation exception: > > If identifiable sections of that work are not derived from the > Program, and can be reasonably considered independent and separate > works in themselves, then this License, and its terms, do not apply > to those sections when you distribute them as separate works. > > This means that it's fine for Kaffe and Eclipse to be distributed > separately. But it's not OK to throw them both on a CD and label it > "Debian OS", if running eclipse loads a program made out of copies of > Kaffe and Eclipse. > > There's also the OS exception, which Debian can't use...
There's a third exception. The implicit exception "if you're not doing something which requires permission from us in the first place, then we can't prevent you from doing it". I think people are arguing that it falls under the third exception, not the other two.
