. Implementation of a specification does not usually
constitute copyright infringement of the specification, for example,
because there's no copying/distribution involved.
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[This is no longer particularly important]
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:37:49AM -0500, Etienne Gagnon wrote:
Andrew Suffield wrote:
Kaffe is essentially a filter that takes java
bytecode as input and emits program code on the fly (this is
technically incomplete, but effectively equivalent
from?
You've got the causality backwards here. The program is linked to the
libraries because it is a derivative of the libraries. Not the other
way around.
Derivation is something that happens when you *write* the program. Not
when you build it.
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irrelevancy. Using an API is just a method for utilising part of
another work. It may or may not be a derivative. This is just a
variation on the 'linker' noise.
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relevant.
Given that eclipse runs on other JVMs, I'm inclined to expect that it
isn't a derivative of any of them, but I really have no idea. That's
the only question here which matters though.
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