Classpath code and licensing

Thu Jun 17 16:20:00 GMT 2004

Robin Rawson-Tetley wrote:
> Still, I have to wonder - who is going to complain? If I distribute and
> say "My code is LGPL, and here's SWT (which is CPL) to save you mucking
> about and downloading it", what's the legal position? I wouldn't have
> thought anyone would sue me (but I guess you never can tell).

I assume that all copyright holders on the works that are combined would 
in theory be able to sue if the combination violated the respective 
distribution terms. Whether they would is a different question, but 
relying on the eternal goodwill of corporations seems like a bad long 
term strategy these days :)
In any case, you could definitiely make a good case for making GPL and 
CPL compatible to the relevant institutions with your work and encourage 
them to do so.
cheers,
dalibor topic