Re: Licensing and the library version of git

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Shawn Pearce wrote:

quoted

[...] 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.