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Free but shackled: The Java trap

Publication:NewsforgeDate:Apr 12 2004
Reporter:Richard M. Stallman

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If your program is free software, it is basically ethical--but there is a trap you must be on guard for. Your program, though in itself free, may be restricted by non-free software that it depends on. Since the problem is most prominent today for Java programs, we call it the Java Trap.


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