Re: Kaffe Article on Wired Online

[Chris Dailey]

> > Can GPL'd things be shipped as a *subsystem*?

> I think you need LGPL for that. (GPL for Libraries). Under GPL,
> something that includes a GPLed component as a subsystem is a
> "derived work" of that GPLed component, and therefore by linking that
> component in you assert that the system as a whole is under GPL.

If kaffe implemented the Open Java API, then could Netscape distribute
and *use* it without *containing* it?

Chris Dailey