Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
Rick Hillegas wrote:
Geir Magnusson Jr wrote:
I read Rick's note on the 10.2 licensing issue in an archive because of
strange move to the user list, so sorry for the weird quoting :
He said :
"I must report today that the restrictions imposed by the beta JDK
license have not been lifted.
As you know, the JDK 6 beta license requires a disclaimer that bars the
use of the code for any productive use....
snip
...For this reason, we, the Derby community must change our
plan to ship imminently an official release of Derby that includes
JDBC4."
Let me start with a question :
Why? Is this all about having a set of API jars to compile against, or
is it something more?
Hi Geir,
In a nutshell, yes. We can use the compiler from JDK 5 without any
licensing restrictions--for our purposes it's just as good as the JDK 6
compiler. However, a restrictive beta license covers the apis in the JDK
6 jars.
This reminds me of the old gag :
"Doctor, my arm hurts when I lift it"
"Don't lift it then..."
Don't use the JDK 6 jars. All you need to do is *compile*, so lets make
our own JARs that get things to compile.
Hi Geir,
I did consider this option. The following problems bothered me:
A) I couldn't figure out how to build the dummy jars without cribbing
templates from either the beta code or beta javadoc. To me this cribbing
seemed like a forbidden, productive use of the beta-licensed distribution.
B) It seemed, frankly, a little sneaky and a violation of the spirit of
the license.
Regards,
-Rick
Is there any runtime dependency on Java SE 6?
geir
