[kaffe] Re: kaffe's license

[Jim White]

Jim Pick wrote:

> ...
> The GPL license is somewhat undefined in terms of how it interacts with
> other code.  It's not a license I would have chosen for a virtual
> machine.  Some people say if you run an application on top of the VM,
> you would have to make that application GPL-licensed too.  Some people
> say that's nonsense (I tend to agree with that viewpoint).

That is clearly FUD.  GNU explicitly says that is not the case, and if 
it were the case then any non-open source application running on Linux 
would be in violation.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#PortProgramToGL

The lack of undue dependency for VM's made clear here:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#InterpreterIncompat

The poster's original question is also answered by GNU:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TheGPLSaysModifiedVersions

Jim White