-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 João Pinheiro wrote: | I'm currently working on a Debian/Ubuntu-based Linux LiveCD Distribution to be used by the students at my university. The goal of this distro is to provide students with a development environment featuring everything they might need to use for all of their subjects throughout the entire semester. This would obviously require me to bundle Sun's JDK along with the distro. | | I have read the license agreement for the JDK 1.5 and I noticed the following excerpt: | | A. Software Internal Use and Development License Grant. | Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement and | restrictions and exceptions set forth in the Software | "README" file, 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. | | If I understand this correctly, it should possible for me to bundle the JDK along with the distro for as long as it's only distributed inside my university. Am I correct? Also, what would "unmodified" mean in this context? Is it possible for me to unpack and install the JDK on the system (without modifying any of the files) or am I forced to distribute the original self-extracting .bin file and require students to unpack and install it each time they boot from the LiveCD? | | The full Java JS2E JDK license can be found here: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/jdk-1_5_0_05-license.txt | | Thanks in advance, | João Pinheiro | | | |
My understanding is that, once you don't modify the JVM, it's ok to distribute it. Severeal distros are distributing it also, and I don't know of any complains. Greetings, Carlos - -- MEMÓRIA PERSISTENTE, Lda. Tel.: 219 291 591 - GSM: 967 511 762 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - URL: http://www.m16e.com AIM: m16e - ICQ: 257488263 - Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype.com username (VoIP): m16e.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDTqa/90uzwjA1SJURArQPAKCpd4FpCxw05mqqLO8KV8yKedQW2wCfe8et OwJs/VvXHhArgE1+iOQM/R0= =uJez -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
