[kaffe-siteadmin] Fw: About Nihonsoft.

[Ito Kazumitsu]

Hi,

I am sorry I have not been able to post to this mailing list.
I have been upgrading my firewall and it took me almost five
days to make FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE work properly on my old i486
machine with as much as 16MB memory.

>>>>> "F" == "fchoong" <fchoong at netbeans.jp> writes:

F> I work for Nihonsoft and I would like to clarify that Nihonsoft fully
F> supports the GPL and is currently planning to release more software under
F> the GPL. The misunderstanding you have probably heard about of stems from
F> nihonlinux project(see http://www.nihonlinux.jp) which we are doing with the
F> help of a lecturer and some students at Aizu University. The lecturer is a
F> big supporter of the CGPL(See http://www.cgpl.org), but I personally and
F> Nihonsoft as a whole prefer GPL.

Yes, the problem arose from the nihonlinux project.

Nihonsoft sponsors nihonLinux and the licence of nihonLinux
is CPGL.  This is clearly stated on the page http://nihonlinux.jp/.

The problem is that CGPL is not GPL and you cannot publish
a Linux distribution with a non-GPL licence.  Some people
pointed out the problem on slashdot.jp or 2ch.net, but as
I see it, this question has not been clearly answered so far.