Hi, Dear diary, on Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 10:39:55PM CEST, I got a letter where Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> said that... > >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. now that's a pretty strong statement - did a lawyer tell you that? (Lawyer in what country? Germany?) Because copyrights are generally retained over translations, otherwise I could freely publish e.g. Czech translation of someone else's English book without any permissions and such, which is obviously not the case. There has been actually similar issue with OpenTTD - it was created by translating Transport Tycoon Deluxe assembly to C without permission of original TTD copyright owner (not that anyone actually knows for sure who that is, after series of company mergers and buyouts). I don't think anyone consulted a lawyer about legality of that either but I believe that most people agree that this is basically illegal (but most likely, noone will ever sue, or care at all). -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ Snow falling on Perl. White noise covering line noise. Hides all the bugs too. -- J. Putnam - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html