>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>SUNW breaks the law, because they themselves offer the Distro-JDK for >>>download and are therefore themselves "Distro-JDK distributors": >>> >>> >> >>No, Sun is not bound by its own redistribution licenses so it does not >>break the law. It owns the JDK so it can distributes it as it sees >>fit. >> >>Casper >> >> > > >A question of good moral in a community ??
No, not at all. Sun has the right to grant "redistribution rights" as original owner. Just as it can release source code it owns under any license, such as the GPL, LGPL or the CDDL. It is self, however, as copyright holder not bound be the license. This is true for any one holding copyright. If I release source under the GPL I can distribute a binary build from modified source without releasing that source by virtue of the fact that I am the original copyright holder and not bound by any license. It is not even morally wrong to do so because as a copyright holder I can do anything, legally. This includes relicensing under a different license also. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
