> After a few days I Eventually got a callback from [Sun] regional > manager Shawnee Williams. She said that it was allright if I created an > installer which had JRE and its installer built in.
Yeah - pulling the 'with java' version of Freenet is over-reacting. So what if it is not distributable by a third party - let them link to the file on freenet.sourceforge.net - it's a good high-visibility server - no actual restriction results from this. As for indemnifying Sun against JRE misbehaviour - is this *really* such a problem? [the only thing Sun has a problem with is modifying or removing any of their classes. The 'with java' version has all Sun's java classes intact, so is fully license-compliant]. ----- Original Message ----- From: "eric Kvam" <[email protected]> To: "Mr.Bad" <mr.bad at pigdog.org> Cc: <devl at freenetproject.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:58 PM Subject: RE: [freenet-devl] JRE License > 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. > > ------Original Message------ > From: "Mr.Bad" <mr.bad at pigdog.org> > To: devl at freenetproject.org > Sent: May 1, 2001 6:57:12 PM GMT > Subject: [freenet-devl] JRE License > > > >>>>> "B" == Bad <mr.bad at pigdog.org> 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. >
