Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Dalibor Topic
Salut Etienne, Etienne Gagnon wrote: Dalibor Topic wrote: GPL says: Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. ... ... As running is clearly not covered under GPL, your argument doesn't work. Modification *IS* cove

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Etienne Gagnon
E.L. Willighagen (Egon) wrote: The big question seems to come done to: "What part of Java is library and what part is language?" It seems to me that at least the syntax *and* java.lang *is* the language... Thus as long as you don't use anything else then java.lang classes, you can use kaffe to r

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread E.L. Willighagen (Egon)
On Saturday 01 November 2003 18:41, Etienne Gagnon wrote: > Dalibor Topic wrote: > > GPL says: > > Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not > > covered by this License; they are outside its scope. ... > > > As running is clearly not covered under GPL, your argument doesn

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Dalibor Topic wrote: GPL says: Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. ... ... As running is clearly not covered under GPL, your argument doesn't work. Modification *IS* covered by the GPL. (FYI, it's not my argumen

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Etienne, Etienne Gagnon wrote: Hi Arnaud, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Anyway, we're switching kaffe's class library over to GNU Classpath, which is GPL + linking exception, and that should make the people who support FSFs interpretation happy, too, as GNU Classpath explicitely allows linking to

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Etienne Gagnon
Hi Arnaud, Arnaud Vandyck wrote: Anyway, we're switching kaffe's class library over to GNU Classpath, which is GPL + linking exception, and that should make the people who support FSFs interpretation happy, too, as GNU Classpath explicitely allows linking to it. This won't necessarily change an

Re: Undistributable java in main

2003-11-01 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:32:08 +0100 Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, we're switching kaffe's class library over to GNU Classpath, > which is GPL + linking exception, and that should make the people who > support FSFs interpretation happy, too, as GNU Classpath explicitely > all