When the whole mess came up to begin with, I sent an email over to our friend Bruce Perens. He said that before he talked with IBM, he wanted something hashed out in debian-legal. I myself never started the thread; finals were too imposing.
It might be a Good Idea to bring it up on debian-legal; or check the archives of debian-legal and see if they discussed it yet. On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:19:38PM +0100, Robert Varga wrote: > > > 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
