From: Godmar Back (gback@cs.utah.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 08 1999 - 14:25:05 EST
Tim,
Thanks a lot for making that clarification!
- Godmar
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> All,
>
> I noticed this comment on the list recently about donating code to Kaffe
> v. Classpath:
>
> > We're different in that Kaffe's libraries are
> >
> > a) copyright Transvirtual - they can sell them under separate licenses
>
> > b) licensed publicly as GPL - this means you aren't legally allowed to
>
> > execute proprietary software with their libraries.
>
> First, we don't sell *ANY* code we don't write - the Kaffe Desktop is a
> different source base to Kaffe Custom - we do propogate code from the
> Custom edition to the Desktop, but not vice-versa. If you donate code
> to Kaffe we won't turn around and sell it - if we wanted to sell that
> code we'd license if from you (by one off purchase or a per-copy fee).
>
> Second, we distribute Kaffe under the GPL to prevent other companies
> from taking our product and embedded it into their products and making
> money off them - if we let them do that we'd go out of business and
> wouldn't be able to support either version of Kaffe. This does not
> prevent you from using Kaffe to run proprietary software - we'd like you
> to make your software open source too but that's up to you.
>
> If anyone has any other questions about Kaffe do drop me a line -
> tim@transvirtual.com
>
> Regards
> Tim
>
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