"Grzegorz B. Prokopski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which Eclipse packages? The old ones we have in SID now? Irrelevant. > There would have been nothing whatsoever to discuss in such case. > > The *new* Eclipse packages that are being prepared now and which we've > been discussing (I already said it in another email, but you must > have crossed yours) have it this way: > > Build-depends: kaffe > Depends: kaffe | java2-runtime > > [ From http://kyoto.larvalstage.net/ubuntu/warty/ ] > > So a user who does either 'apt-get source eclipse' or 'apt-get install > eclipse' will link (either at compilation time or at runtime) to Kaffe's > Java library, and to Kaffe JVM bindings which are all GPL. > > I hope this clarifies _at least_ this issue.
Can you clarify one more? Is Eclipse then just building as well-specified JVM code, or is it linking against GPL'd class libraries as well? I don't actually know whether Kaffe is a JVM or also includes the rest of the Java runtime environment. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]