Carlos Correia wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Florian Weimer escreveu: > | * Jeroen van Wolffelaar: > | > | > |>Official packages of Sun Java are now available from the non-free > |>section of Debian unstable, thanks to Sun releasing[11 Java under a new > |>license: the Operating System Distributor License for Java (DLJ)[2][3]. > | > | > | This license requires that we remove all other Java implementations > | from the mirror network: > | > > No, it doesn't! > > ~From DLJ FAQ (http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-FAQ-v1.1.txt): > > 8. Does this license prevent me shipping any alternative technologies > ~ in my OS distribution? > > ~ The DLJ does not restrict you from shipping any other technologies > ~ you choose to include in your distribution. However, you can't use > ~ pieces of the JDK configured in conjunction with any alternative > ~ technologies to create hybrid implementations, or mingle the code > ~ from the JDK with non-JDK components of any kind so that they run > ~ together. It is of course perfectly OK to ship programs or libraries > ~ that use the JDK. Because this question has caused confusion in the > ~ past, we want to make this absolutely clear: except for these > ~ limitations on combining technologies, there is nothing in the DLJ > ~ intended to prevent you from shipping alternative technologies with > ~ your OS distribution.
Why isn't e.g. an alternative pointing from some other Java environment to the JDK javac a "hybrid implementation"? It is the point of a distribution like Debian to integrate the various pieces. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]