The Sun/Oracle OO.o distributions satisfy the requirements for installation on Microsoft Windows. The LO distributions do as well. Of course, including JVM in Sun/Oracle distributions was a no-brainer.
Since these are distributed in binary form only and the appropriate NOTICE information (formerly THIRDPARTYLICENSE...) is included, one would trust this survives ASF Legal review in all cases of components required to run and that are incorporated in the distribution (a binary release?) in conformance with rules for the respective redistributables. It is not clear to me that either of those bundlings in binary releases is explicitly tolerated by the information that is provided at <http://apache.org/legal/resolved.html>. There seems to be no help in the older draft either: <http://apache.org/legal/3party.html>. I also note that if one is bundling the JVM or building Windows distributions, there are library dependencies and API dependencies too, somewhere deep in the works. (The LibreOffice folk have apparently stopped any JVM bundling but I don't know what they do about Microsoft redistributables.) It seems that there is more that needs to be said about binary releases and how non-source, restrictive-license redistributables are incorporated in those releases to satisfy installation requirements and also provide run-time services to an Apache release. I thought I saw how that was tolerable so long as no source was provided and the redistribution terms were honored, NOTICE was provided, etc. I can't find anything clear-cut on looking again. I think more words on this case from Robert Burrell Donkin would be helpful. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 08:39 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Is the JRE license OK for inclusing in AOO? On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Marcus (OOo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Has someone already thought about the license for the included JRE? > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/terms/license/index.html > > With releases from Sun/Oracle we put the JRE into (many) installation sets > to make it easier for the user with the installation. But it's also required > for some features as the Base module and some wizards. > > How can we continue this? Is the license compatible? > Presumably our Windows install includes Microsoft redistributable binaries as well, MSVCRT DLL, etc.? > There is already an issue for this: > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=118532 > > Marcus >
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