The original question was whether or not GWT was in violation of the LGPL, which it would only be if GWT utilized a LGPL component without following the license.
At that point, RMS would not care (or at least, would not be in a position to do anything about it). The only people at that point that could start anything would be the copyright holders for the LGPL code of which GWT is in violation of. License violations are a strict legal term that define whether or not you are using a licensed work (in this case a work with a copyright license) but not fulfilling its terms. If you do not use any work under a specific license, you can never be in violation of that license. It has nothing to do whether or not the license that you choose for your work is in the spirit of another license since you are free to pick any license without consequence (provided it is compatible with other licenses you may be using). On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Ian Bambury <ianbamb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know *nothing* about licensing, but I've been following this, and > I apologise if it's a stupid question but... > If you *don't* release a product under a certain licence, then how can it > be possibly be a concern if the product doesn't comply to the licence it > isn't released under? > > Ian > > http://examples.roughian.com > > > 2009/4/8 Ian Petersen <ispet...@gmail.com> > > >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:32 PM, ginger_ninja <david.s.k...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > What a farce. Who cares if it violates the LGPL (besides perhaps RMS)? >> >> That's a ridiculous comment. Because GWT is released under the Apache >> license, I don't understand how this conversation even got started but >> if, hypothetically, GWT _did_ violate the LGPL, that's an important >> problem. Suggesting that RMS is the only person that could possbily >> care is absurd. >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
