Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 02:37:45PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > jikes-sun implements a javac compiler, and uses the Sun JDK. > > This is indeed as far as I can see a violation of Sun's license to > do, it's however a bug in jikes-sun: jikes-sun is the package > combining technology in a way that's not allowed by the license of > one of the used packages. This was already a problem before the DLJ, > also the old Sun Java license didn't allow to do so.
This is not actually a bug, since javac does not use sun-java5, but blackdown's distribution. That makes any issues with jikes-sun wholly separate from the sun-java5 packages. The relevant part of the EULA you get from blackdown is A.Software Internal Use and Development License Grant. Subject to the │ terms and conditions of this Agreement, including, but not limited to │ the Java Technology Restrictions of these Supplemental Terms, Sun grants │ you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license without fees to │ reproduce internally and use internally the Software complete and │ unmodified for the purpose of designing, developing, and testing your │ Programs. I see no conflict with the end-user using jikes-sun in conjunction with the JDK to design, develop, and test programs. So I see no reason why this bug can not be closed. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]