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. -- Måns Rullgård [EMAIL PROTECTED]
