Uncle George writes:
> Bec of the limited space & bandwidth, I was thinking of providing a
> redhat rpm for the various alpha platforms ( 21064, 21164, and the
> 21164a processors ). I'd like to create the rpm, and submit the rpm to
> redhat for their inclusion into the jewel set distribution.
> Am i violating the bin license, by doing so. I suppose if someone else
> were to package the bins, and submitted the RPM to redhat they would be
> safe, and unencumbered by the license.
If you use the bins, no matter who built them, you are encumbered. Read the
LICENSE file. You can package and distribute JRE w/o problems, but for a
commercial product like RedHat, I think you need a commercial license (and now
that RedHat has a new influx of big name investor money, this shouldn't be a
big deal to pay for :-) . It's really something that RedHat and and Sun need
to work out.
Why don't you make your distribution available so that Blackdown can cause it
to be mirrored around the world like the other Linux JDK's? This means that
your site only pays for the one upload to Blackdown, it gets wide distribution,
and you don't have to keep the files on your ISP (the restrictive ISP from
Hell, if I remember right). No legal issues. If you want to package
things as an RPM and upload that too, that would be fine.
Steve
