Re: org.omg link on Classpath homepage

[Stuart Ballard]

Brian Jones wrote:
> I don't know if the FSF has characterized the OMG license as non-free
> yet.  We can't include it but we're certainly free to point people at
> it.  It's called 'javartf' and I still have a copy of it if someone
> wants it.  I couldn't get into the ftp site just now myself.

Surely if it doesn't allow modification there's not much doubt that it's 
non-free?

And there was a somewhat-public dispute between the GNU Ghostscript team 
and the GNU Project leadership (specifically RMS) over the fact that GNU 
Ghostscript pointed people to Aladdin Ghostscript which is non-free - 
last I heard, GNU Ghostscript was no longer part of the GNU project 
(although the split was amicable) because they were unwilling to remove 
all references to the non-free project. So I'm fairly sure that the rule 
against pointing people to non-free code is enforced strictly on 
software that is part of the GNU project.

Stuart.

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