From: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>, Thomas Hallgren <thomas(at)tada(dot)se>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, postgres hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Dave Cramer <pg(at)fastcrypt(dot)com>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, Satoshi Nagayasu <nagayasus(at)nttdata(dot)co(dot)jp> |
Subject: | Re: Three weeks left until feature freeze |
Date: | 2006-07-13 18:07:40 |
Message-ID: | 20060713180740.GG17269@kenobi.snowman.net |
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* Joshua D. Drake (jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com) wrote:
> Csaba Nagy wrote:
> >On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:29, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >>It's not the PostgreSQL project's problem, that's true, but it certainly
> >>becomes an issue for distributions. Java as a PL ends up being a pretty
> >>odd case.. If there isn't anything in the PL code itself which forces a
> >>dependency beyond gcj then it might be possible to distribute it. Also
> >>allowing the PL to use a different JVM shouldn't be a problem so long as
> >>nothing is distributed which depends on the alternate JVM. The GPL is
> >>all about distribution and so I'm not sure that it would actually be a
> >>problem for an end-user to use Sun's JVM with GPL'd Java code.
> >
> >Now I'm completely confused... what GPL code ? Is PL/Java licensed under
> >the GPL ? Or what GPL code do you talk about ?
>
> What was a mistake on my part. I was tired when I wrote the part about GPL.
As for my part, I was referring to any GPL'd Java code being distributed
with a given distribution (ie: Debian), possibly running under PL/Java.
:)
Thanks,
Stephen
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