Licensing question

[Sidharth Kshatriya]

I feel this response is not helpful. I can understand that it might be
difficult for Oracle employees to give their opinions on this mailing list
on licensing issues -- even if they felt they could offer some answers.

But practically speaking, licensing issues are important. If the
Graal/Truffle team wants people to actually use what they are building and
make it a successful open source project then these questions should to be
addressed, somewhere, if not here.

So, as a fellow developer interested in Graal/Truffle, I hope Rafaello's
query can be addressed and I would request we just don't throw the rule
book at him :-)

Thanks,

Sidharth
On Sep 30, 2016 10:52 PM, "Dalibor Topic" <dalibor.topic at oracle.com> wrote:

> Per the OpenJDK FAQ:
>
> Can I expect to get specific legal advice or answers to my legal questions
> on OpenJDK mailing lists?
>
> In general, no. The OpenJDK mailing lists serve for technical work around
> development of specific OpenJDK projects.
>
> In my opinion asking legal questions on mailing lists is at best just a
> waste of everyone's time.
>
> Cheers,
> Dalibor Topić
>
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> > On 30 Sep 2016, at 18:49, Raffaello Giulietti <
> raffaello.giulietti at supsi.ch> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm aware that this might not be the ideal place to ask about licensing
> > issues but I'm just looking for unbinding opinions, not legal advice.
> >
> > My understanding is that Graal is licensed under the "viral" GPL while
> > Truffle is licensed under the less restrictive GPL with Classpath
> exception.
> >
> > What does this imply for a Truffle language implementation that makes
> > use of Graal for performance, even if it does not link directly to the
> > Graal API?
> > Does it indirectly inherit the stricter GPL status or can it be
> > distributed with any license as allowed by the GPL with Classpath
> exception?
> >
> > Greetings
> > Raffaello
>