Måns Rullgård <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Thomas Sniffen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Dalibor Topic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>> When I instruct my computer running the Debian OS to load and run >>>> eclipse, the code from some JVM package and the code from the Eclipse >>>> package and from dozens of others are loaded into memory. The process >>>> on my computer is mechanical, so we should look back and see who has >>>> designed and created this particular combination. In this case, it >>>> was Debian, who took the top level Eclipse component and selected >>>> a particular JVM and particular support libraries to include. >>> >>> That's the 'running is illegal/GPL puts restrictions on use' fallacy. :) >> >> I'm not talking about running; I'm talking about making a copy of >> Eclipse and a copy of Kaffe and putting them both on an end-user's >> system such that when I type "eclipse" I get a program made out of >> both. > > So what? Eclipse is still only a Java program being interpreted by > Kaffe, which is perfectly within the limits set by the GPL.
Not quite true. It also incorporates the GNU Classpath libraries which are distributed with / part of Kaffe. There clearly are bindings provided there. The GNU Classpath package is GPL'd, right? -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
