Package: sun-java5 Version: 1.5.0-08-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.3
Section 2.3 of the Debian Policy Manual says that Debian reserves "the right to restrict files from being included anywhere in our archives if their use or distribution would break a law". AFAICT Debian is in violation of the licensing terms for SUN's JVM. Distribution anyway is a legal offence in most countries, thus severity "serious". The DLJ (which I found at http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-FAQ.html#dlj) says that you're not allowed to ("the Software" refers to SUN's JVM): " combine, configure or distribute the Software to run in conjunction with any additional software that implements the same or similar functionality or APIs as the Software " Debian is shipping libswt3.1-gtk-java: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/libswt3.1-gtk-java Its description says: "SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) provides functionality similar to Swing". Since Debian is distributing SUN's JVM to run in conjunction with libswt (what else would libswt be used for?), which "provides functionality similar to Swing", this seems to be a direct violation of the licensing terms to me. As libswt has been in main for a while, and SUN's JVM is a new package in non-free, it seems logical to drop SUN's JVM to resolve this rather than libswt. Regards //Johan -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=sv_SE, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
