[Kaffe] can the classpath project be used with Kaffe.

Alexandre Oliva oliva at dcc.unicamp.br
Tue Feb 9 19:27:20 PST 1999


On Feb 10, 1999, Alex Nicolaou <anicolao at mud.cgl.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> For that matter, you could take the existing Kaffe library and LGPL
> it...

Not without permission from everyone who contributed to it.

> In other words, your stated intent is that Transvirtual release
> under GPL because GPL is a good thing(tm), and Transvirtual not use
> Classpath because LGPL would allow your work to be sold by someone
> else.

But if Kaffe contained a GPLed modified copy of Classpath, there would 
not be such a risk.

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Alexandre Oliva  http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva  aoliva@{acm.org}
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil



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