Stefan Bodewig <bodewig@bost.de> writes:
> >>>>> "JC" == Jonathan Carlson <jcarlson@is.com> writes:
>
> >> Yes, huge problems. We couldn't ship it with Ant and you'd violate
> >> the GPL if you shipped Ant with your stuff.
>
> JC> Then how can jBoss (which is GPL) use the Tomcat server which is
> JC> APL?
>
> IANAL, but I'm afraid jBoss violates the GPL if they do.
With all this talk about what's compatible how about this situation. Say I
write a tool in java, essentially a compiler, that uses some gnu libraries,
regexp & getopt. Then I decide that I want to write my build files with ant,
since it's so cool. Now I want to write a taskdef for ant that allows my tool
to be used easily with ant and distribute that rule with my tool along with a
link to ant's homepage.
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