Does GPL allow that? (not theorhetical)

2005-01-12 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
Hi, Because some people feel unsure about how a JVM, its classpath and java compiler interact together, below I tried to strip the situation down to a simple and clean non-java case. Assume we have the following packages, providing a shared library: Package: propr-line License: non-free, free to

Does GPL allow that? (not theorhetical)

2005-01-12 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
Hi, Because some people feel unsure about how a JVM, its classpath and java compiler interact together, below I tried to strip the situation down to a simple and clean non-java case. Assume we have the following packages, providing a shared library: Package: propr-line License: non-free, free to

Re: Does GPL allow that? (not theorhetical)

2005-01-13 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
Hi, There's been a lenghty (but in my opinion more fruitful) discussion of similar matters on the Linux kernel mailing list. We all know that FSF might be sometimes seen as interpreting its licenses very strictly, but we also know that OTOH Linus has much more permissive approach. Yet, if you fo

Re: Does GPL allow that? (not theorhetical)

2005-01-13 Thread Grzegorz B. Prokopski
Hi, There's been a lenghty (but in my opinion more fruitful) discussion of similar matters on the Linux kernel mailing list. We all know that FSF might be sometimes seen as interpreting its licenses very strictly, but we also know that OTOH Linus has much more permissive approach. Yet, if you fo