-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Drew Parsons wrote: > Trying to read Sun's words over again, it seems to me that what Sun is > saying here is not that you can't distribute the other technologies, > but that you can't distribute them to run *with* the Sun JDK. That's > how I interpret the phrase "to run in conjunction with".
It says that you cannot combine, configure, or distribute certain software in conjunction with the Sun JDK. I outlined in my email previous to this one various ways in which a distribution might violate this straightaway (meaning, without even doing anything different from what the distribution already has been doing). You're right that the key word seems to be ``conjunction'', but nothing says, for example, that you are fine if the software in question is shipped in a separate package. Currently, I don't know of any distribution that has tried to replace Sun's rt.jar with GNU Classpath's rt.jar. In fact, you can't really do this right now as the two are incompatible. But there are some things that can be done right now. For example, ecj can be configured to replace Sun's javac, and the Apache XML API's may be configured to replace Sun's XML classes, or anything may be done via modification of the bootclasspath. So, if the distribution is configured in various ways (via alternatives, shell scripts, etc.) it may be violate this. - -- Sincerely, David Walluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mandriva - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEboGtN5thZBYlTwkRAmdeAKCB2vzQwU90tqEa+FLWCQ8arSKamwCaAzsD Q/6E1Nm4FTY+n+bvky+CmXE= =qKEC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
