Ainsi parlait [EMAIL PROTECTED] : > > The BCL states that you cannot make a distribution of the .jar file > > outside of your product. In other words, if you want to distribute the > > single .jar file, you can't do that. > > > > "(i) distribute the Software complete and unmodified and only bundled as > > part of your Programs" Well, the very reason that we package this proprietary stuff is precisely that they are needed by other packages (otherwise we wouldn't provide them). So even if included in separate files, they are actually distributed as dependencies of other softwares. If "our program" is our complete set of packages, we could consider them as bundled inside.
[..] > BTW, the clause 'complete and unmodified' is very interesting - does it > refers to the jar or the whole binary package ( most people refer to the > whole downloaded package as 'software', and the jar is a piece of it ). > If so, tomcat and most other packages that include it are breaking > the licences, since they repackage and include only the jar. > 'Software' is previously defined as 'accompanying software > and documentation and any error corrections provided by Sun (collectively > "Software") Right, and providing them in full packages with documentation, license and other original files, as we do, is more respectful in this regard. -- Guillaume Rousse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG key http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
