Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 09:53:03PM -0500, Walter Landry wrote: > > The GPL puts restrictions on whole works. > > True. > > > "Requires to run" is a useful heuristic to determine what a whole > > work is. > > Kaffe does not require Eclipse to run. So by this heuristic, > Eclipse is not a part of Kaffe.
You missed the part about Eclipse requiring Kaffe to run. > > If you have a better heuristic, I am open to discussion. > > "Requires to build". I have serious doubts that only the header files would become part of the complete work. > "Incorporates content from". That would be an ordinary derived work. As I mentioned, the GPL goes beyond derived works. > "Designed as part of". So if a GPL'd program can use GNU TLS or OpenSSL, we don't have to actually ship GNU TLS? Are you actually proposing that? I think that if we can agree on what a useful criteria is, then the rest of the discussion melts away. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
