"Grzegorz B. Prokopski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2005-15-01 at 09:13 +0100, Michael Koch wrote: >> Am Samstag, 15. Januar 2005 05:12 schrieb Brian Thomas Sniffen: >> >> > 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? >> >> GNU classpath is GPL+linking exception which allows it to link with >> code that is licensed with GPL non-compatible licenses. > > True, but many of the very core classes of Kaffe's java library are > purely GPLed, so the lowest common denominator of the license of whole > class library of Kaffe is pure GPL.
So what? Eclipse is still not derived from these classes. If Eclipse is derived from *any* part of Kaffe, in any way whatsoever, it must be derived form *all* JVM implementations. Furthermore, *all* JVM implementations must be derived from each other, which would render them all illegal. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED]
