Re: New license wording

[Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>]

Mark Wielaard wrote:

>All license texts in Classpath and libgcj have now been updated
>with the clarification.
>

Thanks Mark. Though I'm happy that the license has been improved (and 
happy that Etienne is now hopefully happy!), after re-reading it there 
is one thing I am a little concerned about:

>"As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
>permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
>executable."
>
>"An independent module is a module which is not derived from
>or based on this library."
>

Couldn't any gcj application be thought of as being "based on" the 
libgcj library? How do we know precisely what the difference between 
being "based on" and simply "using" the library is?

regards

Bryce.