I suggest you stop arguing your case since your arguments are getting worse :)
On Friday 3 June 2005 19:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Maybe someone will want to use C code or Haskell code which is under the > Common Public Licence or the Eclipse Public Licence. �Sourceforge.net > currently reports that there are 544 projects under one of these two > licenses. �Probably many of these projects are in C. �At least one is > written in Haskell. 554 of 100,000 projects. Whoa thats 0.5%! Yeah; really a strong argument.. > Anyway, the question of programming language is orthogonal to the issue > of license transitivity under the GPL. �The requirements of the GPL apply > regardless of how the components communicate. Sure it does. > You could, for example, use Java's Native Interface and Haskell's Foreign > Function Interface. � That does not allow two non-c libraries to communicate. > Or GCC's Java compiler "gcj". �Or, you have them > invoke > one another with fork() and pass messages to one another through pipes. � That is not a problem in the license since you just described how exec works. Anyway; while we are at it; why not make darcs public domain so people that work with Suns GPL-wanabee or the Apache license, or whatever can still fork darcs for their own nice looking GUIs. </sarcasm> -- Thomas Zander
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