On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Monday 10 January 2000, at 18 h 19, the keyboard of Robert Varga > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is the current state of licensing the IBM jdk? > > I don't know, the installer is still in "contrib", but contains very few info > about the licencing issues. You could file a bug/wishlist against it on this > subject. > > > Is it possible to obtain a licence for Debian 2.1? > > It would still be non-free, because of item 8 in the DFSG "License Must Not > Be > Specific to Debian". > > See bug #54641 for an issue about IBM JDK. > My interest is not in what distribution (main or contrib) the ibm-jdk can be put in, but whether I can use IBM jdk on a debian machine at all. I don't know where to put that ominous 3 lines about the 'program code may be used only in conjunction with RH 6.0 and Caldera 2.2' (not exact quotation). Does this forbid the usage ibm jdk with debian linux or not? We are to ship a system where we suggested debian linux and ibm jdk. Due to the licensing it seems unclear whether this combination is legal or not. We don't want to replace either components, since we don't trust other JDKs due to stability issues with every other jdk tried, and naturally we would not like to use neither redhat nor caldera due to obvious reasons (redhat being nowhere near to being secure, and caldera is not really known to us, therefore we would not dare to provide support for it). TIA, Robert Varga
