Re: [xmlvm-users] Commercial usage

[Arno P. <ar...@pu...>]

Kevin Glass wrote:
> I get that the generated source is under GPL, but the original Java 
> seems a bit odd. I mean wouldn't anyone that didn't want to comply 
> simply hack up a bunch of classes with no implementation that match the 
> prototypes of the XMLVM java compatbility lib - thereby not linking 
> their Java to the GPL Java stuff?

Consider you use g++ to compile a C++ program to assembler. That 
assembler is linked against a library. If you link it with a GPLed 
library, not only the assembler but also the original C++ source must be 
GPLed. Otherwise there wouldn't be a difference between GPL and LGPL. In 
this way, we treat Objective-C as assembly code that is generated by XMLVM.

Arno