[arch-dev-public] java licensing issues

[Jason Chu]

On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 08:15:19PM +0200, Jan de Groot wrote:
> Hi developers and users,
> 
> As we all know, there's a distribution restriction on sun java. Today we
> asked at the Sun booth about possibilities for distributing java with
> our distribution.
> This solution would come down to entering a process which can take quite
> some months to get a final approvement. This means that until we would
> have such a solution, any Sun java we distribute is illegal.

I thought that we were following the dlj guidelines... did you mention
anything to them about that?

https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/

Any other approach we made, we'd have to make sure that all our currently
supported java apps still work.  I only know about the couple that I
maintain...

Jason
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