Re: Win CE port

[Per Bothner]

Roman Kennke wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Am Freitag, den 20.01.2006, 13:05 -0800 schrieb Per Bothner:
>
> > Mark Wielaard wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Phillipe,
> > >
> > > On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 15:03 +0100, Philippe Laporte wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > >    It is our understanding that a GPL VM can't be freely redistributed 
> > > > in a commercial product.
> > >
> > >
> > > There should be no trouble at all freely redistributing such a thing in
> > > a commercial product. Just make sure you distribute the source code for
> > > it to your users.
> >
> > Just to clarify:
> >
> > Depends what you mean by "it".  If you mean the VM, that may not be
> > enough, since in an embedded environment it is likely the VM is linked
> > in with the commercial product.  In that case you may also have to
> > freely redistributing source for the commercial product.
>
>
>
> AFAICS this is true for the GPL, but not so with the GPL+linking
> exception under which GNU Classpath is distibuted. Maybe someone with
> more insight in the license (Mark? Dalibor?) could clarify this?

Correct, but the comment was "GPL VM".  I assumed he was talking about
a "VM" that was GPL'd - not the Classpath libraries - which do not
include a VM.
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