Re: Sun's JVM in non-free

2004-09-16 Thread Dalibor Topic
Ricky Clarkson gmail.com> writes: > I think the JRE is a bit more lenient, but I hardly ever use just a > JRE, so I don't read the licence for that very often. from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/j2re-1_4_2_05-license.txt "B.License to Distribute Software. Subject to the terms and conditions o

Re: Sun's JVM in non-free

2004-09-16 Thread Ricky Clarkson
Read the licence properly. They allow redistribution with a few terms, a number of which are problems, particularly the one about indemnification. Debian can't afford (and doesn't want to) indemnify Sun. Other problems include not allowing you to distribute alternatives to the java.* packages if

Sun's JVM in non-free

2004-09-16 Thread Jerry Haltom
Does anybody remember the exact reason this isn't possible? From what I understand from Sun's license, they do allow redistribution. IANAL so help me out. ;)