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| | Re: GPL and Copyright Law (Was: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe) |
 | | How Kaffe, the GPld interpreter, goes about loading GPLd parts of *itself* into memory, whether it uses JNI, KNI, dlopen, FFI, libtool, or other "bindings", or whether it asks the user to tilt switches on an array of light bulbs is irrelevant to the copyright law. |
 | | Again, the situation for Kaffe is precisely the same as for GNU Bash, which doesn't have an extra exception either, nor does it need one for works that are not derived works of GNU Bash. |
 | | Kaffe's native libraries are a part of the interpreter. |
| www.talkaboutsoftware.com /group/linux.debian.legal/messages/13269.html (4665 words) |
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