Re: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)

2007-11-13 Thread Marco d'Itri
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> You are missing the point: some printers may or may not work, but the >> program itself still has the same capabilities and is not influenced by >> what getweb does. >that's why it is ok for most of the program to be in main. its just getweb >that depends on non-free d

Re: Re: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)

2007-11-13 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael Gilbert said: > >>and since getweb depends on non-free software and is a part of the > >>package, foo2zjs as a whole is considered to depend on non-free > >>software. > > >No. getweb *downloads* and copies some non-free software, it does not > >depend on it. >

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-13 Thread Ben Finney
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 "link