Jim Pick wrote:
... The GPL license is somewhat undefined in terms of how it interacts with other code. It's not a license I would have chosen for a virtual machine. Some people say if you run an application on top of the VM, you would have to make that application GPL-licensed too. Some people say that's nonsense (I tend to agree with that viewpoint).
That is clearly FUD. GNU explicitly says that is not the case, and if it were the case then any non-open source application running on Linux would be in violation.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#PortProgramToGL The lack of undue dependency for VM's made clear here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#InterpreterIncompat The poster's original question is also answered by GNU: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TheGPLSaysModifiedVersions Jim White _______________________________________________ kaffe mailing list [email protected] http://kaffe.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kaffe
