Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
>I am wondering if Java GPLed application can link with CDDL classes? >Case looks like the cdrecord question i saw in the archive. >The case is in CarMetal (geometrical program derived from the wondeful >CaR from René Grothman) >http://db-maths.nuxit.net/CaRMetal/ You first need to be very carefu

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-15 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:15:25 + John Halton wrote: > On 15/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: [usual unbacked assertions and handwaving by Mr. Schilling...] > > It is possible the licence uses the "version two or later" version of > the GPL, which would allow the software to

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-15 Thread John Halton
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 09:09:04PM +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote: > I think that being a lawyer you will agree that " or > later" is *at most* a permission given by the original licensor to > direct licensees (i.e. parties entering version two contract) to > SUBLICENSE (licensees can become subli

Re: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)

2007-11-15 Thread Frank Küster
Michael Gilbert gmail.com> writes: > > Stephen Gran wrote: > > That being said, packages that exist solely to download external > > non-free content have traditionally been considered contrib material. > > If this is just a helper script that nothing else in the package uses, > > it seems perfec

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-15 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 15 novembre 2007 à 17:04 +0100, Joerg Schilling a écrit : > >CarMetal uses colorchooser https://colorchooser.dev.java.net/ wich is > >CDDL licensed. > > If colorchooser has been developed independently from CaRMetal, and only > CaRMetal calls colorchooser, it is indeed similar to what hap

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
"John Halton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You first need to be very carefull to find out the license for this > > software. It does not mention the GPL version number, which makes > > it hard to find the authors will. > > > > Given the

Re: Java, GPL and CDDL

2007-11-15 Thread John Halton
On 15/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You first need to be very carefull to find out the license for this > software. It does not mention the GPL version number, which makes > it hard to find the authors will. > > Given the fact that a lot of the files have not been touched si

Re: Policy on Binary Firmware Fetching in Main (e.g. foo2zjs)

2007-11-15 Thread John Halton
On 15/11/2007, Michael Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i don't see a difference. if any part of the package requires access > to non-free data to function correctly, then the entire package should > be considered to depend on non-free. > > this is different from the compiz situation where the