I think u need to reread the "open source" licensing requirements. They appear to be
"commercial" in nature, and monetary in fact. Please extract the particular places
from the licenses which states quite clearly that "non-commercial", if there is such a
thing anymore, distribution & use is still available.
I was only recently able to get a "non-commercial" 1.1.8, but java didn't forward me
another non-commercial license for JDK1.2.1
gat
Jeff Galyan wrote:
> Your comments assume a desire to distribute the JDK itself. There are no
> restrictions or fees for distributing the software you develop, nor are
> you restricted from distributing the *binaries* of add-on libraries you
> get from Sun (there may be some exceptions on redistributing binary jars
> of class libs, but I haven't seen Sun put any restrictions on them yet -
> only commercial libraries that you have to pay for from other companies
> carry restrictions).
>
> --Jeff
>
> Uncle George wrote:
> >
> > I think ur notion is somewhat short sighted:
> > 1) The source -> free,
> > 2) The Jck -> No so free ( exceeding bogus claim that ur not smart enough to run
> > the tests, but ur smart enough to port it, which porting, u seem to admit it , is
> > a difficult task )
> > 3) Distribution -> Not so free.
> >
> > 4) so wheres the philosophy behind the "non-commercial" licenses? You could have
> > released ur efforts for public consumption, even as bad as the port can be. So it
> > goes.
> > gat
>
> --
> Jeff Galyan
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> jeffrey dot galyan at sun dot com
> talisman at anamorphic dot com
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