Re: GPL licenced Java application using non GPL jars (libraries)

[Alexander Terekhov]

Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
[...]
> Your source code is yours to license as you please. The fact that it
> uses the Java mechanisms to call library code does not make it a
> derivative work of these libraries. 

Unless you happen to live in the GNU Republic.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.txt

"When a program is linked with a library, whether statically or using
a shared library, the combination of the two is legally speaking a
combined work, a derivative of the original library. "

Legally speaking, this is not true. Except under copyleft law of the
GNU Republic.

regards,
alexander.