Yves Combe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am wondering if Java GPLed application can link with CDDL classes? > Case looks like the cdrecord question i saw in the archive.
To understand whether there's a license conflict, there needs to be an understanding of whether copyright is invoked by "linking". In many jurisdictions, this boils down to whether the action of distributing a work, Foo, that "links to" work Bar, is thus distributing a derivative work of Bar. This, in turn, depends on the technicalities of what's happening in the instance of "links to"; I don't know Java well enough to say definitely. The FSF's legal theory is that, in the case where Foo is a program and Bar is a library in the C programming model, "Foo links to Bar" is sufficient to satisfy "Foo is a derivative work of Bar". To my knowledge, this theory has not yet been tested in any court. If the FSF is correct on the above, I don't know how far this would extend to other "links to" implementations in other languages. > The case is in CarMetal (geometrical program derived from the wondeful > CaR from René Grothman) > http://db-maths.nuxit.net/CaRMetal/ > > CarMetal uses colorchooser https://colorchooser.dev.java.net/ wich is > CDDL licensed. > Is that ok for dfsg ? I hope the above helps the issue become clearer — or at least points out where the gnarly details are :-) > (please cc-me) Done. -- \ "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order | `\ will lose both, and deserve neither." -- Thomas Jefferson, in | _o__) a letter to Madison | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
