Re: JAVA and other dangers

2002-12-30 Thread Gabor Szabo
Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: so... is that legal or not...? I think this issue was the very reason Perl is distributed with GPL or with Artistic license. I am sorry I don't have link right now to the Artistic license. Gabor http://www.perl.org.il/YAPC/2003/ ==

RE: JAVA and other dangers

2002-12-30 Thread Alon Weinstein
ps using GNU Classpath (http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/) could make GPLing Java code easier. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ira Abramov Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 11:05 AM To: Raft of Circumcised Penguins Subject: Re: JAVA and o

Re: JAVA and other dangers

2002-12-30 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Alexander Maryanovsky, from the post of Mon, 30 Dec: > It's not that clear cut with Java. In fact, the GPL is rather flawed > when it comes to interpreted languages, or any languages that allow > reflection, because in the former case, there is no linking (at least > not in the original sen

Re: JAVA and other dangers

2002-12-29 Thread Alexander Maryanovsky
The question to be answered is whether or not the closed programs is a derivative of the GPLed one. The GPL states that a program that is linked against a GPLed program is considered a derivative program, so according to the GPL you only get legal rights to use the GPLed program if you offer the

Re: JAVA and other dangers

2002-12-29 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 01:01, Ira Abramov wrote: > > > > The question to be answered is whether or not the closed programs is a > > derivative of the GPLed one. The GPL states that a program that is > > linked against a GPLed program is considered a derivative program, so > > according to the GPL y

Re: JAVA and other dangers

2002-12-29 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Gilad Ben-Yossef, from the post of Mon, 30 Dec: > > The question to be answered is whether or not the closed programs is a > derivative of the GPLed one. The GPL states that a program that is > linked against a GPLed program is considered a derivative program, so > according to the GPL you