According to bug #37599, Stephen Zander sent mail to Sun's licensing folks to check on the legal status of the jdk1.1 packages. The last message attached to bug 37599 is dated May 16, 1999.
Has any progress been made since then? Any word from Sun? I know lawyers can take a long time, but there should have at least been an acknowledgement of receipt of the question by now. I notice that Wichert's release-critical bugs page suggests removing this package; however, I can't find any part of the JDK license from Sun that says that the package cannot be reorganized as an "installer" style package similar to Netscape, RealPlayer, ICQ, etc. Would this be an acceptable compromise? Ordinarily I'd just say "yes" but this isn't a familiar package to me and I note that .diff.gz is contains over 100 lines of non-documentation, non-Debian-package-specific changes. -- Zygo Blaxell, Linux Engineer, Corel Corporation. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (play). Opinions above are my own, not Corel's.
