Lewis Jardine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Landry wrote: > > > Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>>>Once again, the only relations between Eclipse and Kaffe are "Eclipse > >>>>is aggregated with Kaffe" and "Eclipse is run by Kaffe". > >>> > >>>And once again, you miss the point that Eclipse and Kaffe together > >>>make a whole work. > >> > >>The make an aggregate work. However, this aggregate work is not the > >>work which is made when Kaffe is modified. > > > > > > Debian distributes a modified Kaffe and Eclipse together. Section 2 > > of the GPL does not care whether the modifications made to Kaffe are > > for making Eclipse work better or not. > > > > > > What is the difference between the following cases? > > # Mr Foo packages Kaffe, making modifications to better integrate with > Debian > # Mr Foo distributes Kaffe' to Mr Bar, complying with the GPL (including > Section 2) > # Mr Bar distributes Kaffe' along with lots of GPL-incompatible java > programs, which he wrote and compiled with Sun's JDK. Note that Kaffe' > is completely unmodified. > > # Mr Foo packages Kaffe, making modifications to better integrate with > Debian > # Mr Foo distributes Kaffe' to Mr Bar, complying with the GPL (including > Section 2) > # Mr Bar distributes Kaffe' to Mr Foo, complying with the GPL. Note that > Kaffe' is completely unmodified. > # Mr Foo distributes Kaffe' along with lots of GPL-incompatible java > programs, which he wrote and compiled with Sun's JDK. Note that Kaffe' > is still completely unmodified. > > I assert that the GPL does case about the nature of the modifications, > because at any point you can distribute a GPLed work to yourself.
You can't distribute to yourself. You can make copies, but you can't distribute. For this particular case, I would be hesitant to say that the distribution of Foo->Bar->Foo is really distribution. It seems like lawyerbait. > If the > GPLed work is separate from other works under copyright law, it > doesn't contaminate them at this point. This is wishful thinking. The paragraphs after GPL 2c clearly cover collective works. Regards, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]