  Re: Illustrating JVM bindings  Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:  I
would then just take the GPLed code of this GC library, GPLed
code of readline, cut out the pieces I need, integrate into my
interepreter and call it "interepter features".  Thus, according
to you, my GPL-incompatible program would be able to use GPLed
code thanks to the simple virtue of my program being
"interepted".  Voila!  GPL is uselless.  GNU Bash (which uses
readline) makes GPL useless because it doesn't force all bash
scripts to be GPLd? Wow. I'm sure the FSF will appreciate your
insight on GNU Bash and the usefulness of the GPL :)  Looking
through the bash documentation, I can find no statement from the
FSF that says 'all your scripts are belong to GPL' or an
exception for non-GPLd scripts.  I think your reasoning about a
hole in the GPL is deeply flawed. The GPL works as it should, it
just doesn't work like a click-wrap non-free license, like you
think it does, and would presumably like it to do. It would
truely be useless if it did wo