This mail from Tom Marble of Sun seems imply that the dependency could be loosed: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/msg00151.html
At least, this is what I understand from the following excerpt: [...] > We're currently splitting the package into pieces; and presumably the > software is unpacked or otherwise modified from the form that Sun has > actually distributed to us. I don't know whether Sun has approved this > or not, but if they haven't, this seems to pose a problem. The JRE and JDK each have been split into different Debian packages to best fit with Debian Policy. Partly this work is an innovative approach to reduce redundancy (e.g. have the JDK depend on the JRE), partly to refactor architecture independent and dependent components and partly to better integrate with Debian (e.g include the -font package giving defoma integration *only* if that font is not already on the system and managed by defoma). [...] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
