On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 10:59:08PM +0100, Andrew Saunders wrote: > > In the meantime I've found something about the copyrighted files from sun. > > Actually these files are part of the official j2sdk! The contens of > > win/include seems to be just a copy of my /usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/include. > > But I have no idea how to treat this information. Does this mean, that > > these files can be treated like our gifs, or do they block a distribution > > into debian? > > In order to distribute any part of Sun's j2sdk you have to agree that > "(iii) you do not distribute additional software intended to replace > any component(s) of the Software". Since Debian distributes and > encourages free replacements such as Kaffe, GCJ and SableVM, no part > of j2sdk can be distributed by the Project at all, even from non-free.
Last I checked you can't distribute parts of Sun's java anyway, only the *precise* installer files provided by Sun. You're not even allowed to stuff the installer inside a .deb package. Blackdown had to get explicit permission from Sun to distribute their version. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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