Hi, On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > In message <Pine.LNX.4.63.0607272239050.29667@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you wrote: > > > > > ... 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? Nothing. I am a non-smoker. Maybe that is my problem? > Your understanding of copyright (and of the GPL) is fundamentally > broken. You can read an article. And you can publish the contents in your own words (you do not violate copyright by that). That is a fact. And I do not buy into your "(and of the GPL)" thing. Either I get the copyright, which the GPL is based on, or I don't get the copyright (but still get that the GPL is based on it). Ciao, Dscho - : 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