>
> I was also under the impression that Kaffe was indeed not GPL'ed for all
> platforms. I thought kaffe was going to take the route that cygnus took in
> supporting embedded systems -- release the code to just the person that paid
> you $$$ to port it to their platform (but then again, maybe I was misinformed
> about cygnus too :)
>
I don't think the GPL allows you to do that. If you've released something
under the GPL, then you've released it: and people can compile it on
whatever platform they want. This is the case for Kaffe.
The fact that TVT sells and support a version of Kaffe that is comprised
of their own contributions to Kaffe and other code that specifically supports
their Kaffe on platforms not yet supported by the open source Kaffe
has no impact on the status on the open source Kaffe. All it says is that
there haven't been any people who ported Kaffe to those platforms and
were willing to release and contribute such ports.
- Godmar
