Package: sun-java5-jre
Version: 1.5.0-06-1
Severity: serious
In the DLJ, there is the clause
Sun also grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable,
royalty-free limited license to reproduce and distribute the
Software, directly or indirectly through your licensees,
distributors, resellers, or OEMs, electronically or in physical
form or pre-installed with your Operating System on a general
purpose desktop computer or server, provided that: (a) the
Software and any proprietary legends or notices are complete and
unmodified; ...
According to the copyright file, Debian gets the package from
http://download.java.net/dlj/binaries/
That location only has a single binary package. However, Debian
splits that into multiple packages (sun-java5-bin, sun-java5-jdk,
sun-java5-jre, etc.). So Debian is not distributing the code complete
and unmodified.
This problem was brought up with Sun [1]. They explained why it is
nice to split up the package, but failed to explain why Debian is
allowed to do the split. Jeroen also commented about it [2], and
makes the argument that the changes necessary for package management
are acceptable. But this does not explain why Debian can split the
package, thus only distributing part of what Debian gets from Sun.
Cheers,
Walter Landry
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[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/msg00151.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/msg00141.html
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