Re: [gl4java-usergroup] GL4Java logo

[Kerry L. B. <ke...@vs...>]

r/e:
>> > where "Kaffe" is the free GPL licensed JVM !
>The hint the name Kaffe gives, should be that we are also Open Source !

For what its worth, and I certainly don't want to start a license religious
war, bit I for one consider the use of "GPL" and "open" source to be a
misnomer and would HATE to see gl4java associated with it in any way.  

When I code at home I like to reuse the my personal projects source base in
my projects at work.  If those work projects are going to be redistributed
as applications, I can't use any GPL at all.  

I don't consider that to be an "open" source license, I consider it to be a
"open source" license restricted to non-commercial use and restricted to
use only with other software under exactly the same license.
(Non-commercial in the sense that the GPL virally public source clause
means you can't charge much more for an application that cost of goods,
i.e. blank CD's.)

The GPL license terms are also being expanded by FSF/ESR to try and
increase the scope of the viral threshold, I know he's pushing for the
definitions to be interpreted so that LGPL is impossible in Java, and all
Java systems must be GPL if anything is GPL.  I beleive this is being done
by extrapolating that the way a JVM loads classes falls under the
definition of a derived work as defined by the GPL, and the next version
will make this clear.

What this means is that by the time gl4java works in Kaffe, the license may
require that gl4java become GPL to be allowed to be used with it.  Forced
license migrations like this are one of FSF/ESR's major goals.