Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote: > > > [...] as the GPL is incompatible with the Sun JRE runtime lirbary. > > This is not true. You can legally write and run GPLed software on the JRE > runtime library. > > BTW I found an Eclipse plugin which is GPLed: > > http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/Web_Links-index-req-viewlink-cid-651.html Thanks. I did a little research on it myself after reading your email. I turned up the following two pages from the FSF: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#InterpreterIncompat http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-java.html Both suggest that I can license everything under the GPL but provide exclusions to allow users to run the code against its dependencies which aren't GPL'd: - the end-user may 'link' the code against any Java runtime library of their choice; - the end-user may 'link' the code against any Eclipse platform or derivative of their choice; So given that I'm seriously considering changing the license to GPLv2 for the next version. -- Shawn. - : 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