I actually called Sun a week ago about licensing JRE for something I'm
working on. After a few days I Eventually got a callback from regional
manager Shawnee Williams. She said that it was allright if I created an
installer which had JRE and its installer built in, I did say that I
wouldn't modify the original JRE installer but I got the impression that it
was allright either way.
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From: "Mr.Bad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: May 1, 2001 6:57:12 PM GMT
Subject: [freenet-devl] JRE License
>>>>> "B" == Bad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
B> Also, IIRC, there are some redistribution issues with adding a
B> JRE to your projects -- which is one reason that it's rare to
B> see JREs included with Free Software projects.
B> Has anyone checked this out yet?
OK, I just did check it out, and I'm pretty sure that adding the JRE is
very inappropriate.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/j2re-1_3_0-linux-license.html
Two things in particular bug me:
* The package with JRE included is non-redistributable. That
is, people can't download the exe with the JRE in it and
post it anywhere.
* We agree to indemnify Sun against any problems with the
JRE. This seems totally reckless and stupid.
I understand why there is support for having this in the distributed
exe, but it just seems like a really bad idea.
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For this reason, I've deleted the *-withjava-* stuff from
SourceForge. I've got copies and I'll put it back up if/when we decide
to do so, but for right now it seems like a bad move to make.
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~Mr. Bad
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