Re: Licensing and the library version of git

From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Date: Jul 27, 2006, 21:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20060727211046.C9FD5352625@atlas.denx.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607272239050.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

In message <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607272239050.29667@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> you wrote:

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> > ... and assuming it is a clean-room  implementation  which  does  not
> > borrow from the GPL code.
> 
> >From a standpoint of copyright (which the GPL relies on), this is not 
> possible: you cannot include C code into Java. And if it is _translated_ 
> from C into Java, it is not copyrighted any more.

Gulp. What have you been smoking lately? Your understanding of copyright (and of the GPL) is fundamentally broken.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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