Walter Landry writes: > I meant linking as a shorthand for "incorporated as a section of a > whole work". Although Kaffe is actually objecting to being > distributed while "linked" to Eclipse.
My point is that it has no clear basis for that objection without violating DFSG #9. > I am talking about a CD that does not have bsd readline. To clarify, > imagine the CD were made without access to bsd readline at all. Would > that be allowed? Yes. > > We covered all this earlier, and there was no good explanation of why > > Eclipse + Kaffe is bad but other GPL-incompatible packages + GPLed > > Essential: yes packages are okay. For example: does any non-GPL > > package that calls out (using only cross-platform options) to one of > > the binaries in coreutils, diff, find, grep, gzip, etc violate the > > GPL? > > Many of the utilities are covered by the exemption given by the FSF in > the gpl-interpreter FAQ. The gpl-interpreter FAQ addresses the interpreted scripts, not programs that use the utilities to operate. Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
