Am Montag, den 17.10.2005, 17:26 -0400 schrieb John Dong: > > > On 10/17/05, Oliver Grawert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > Am Montag, den 17.10.2005, 16:21 -0400 schrieb John Dong: > > BTW, Sun Java is being distributed by SuSE 10.0 and 9.3. Can > we enter > > such an agreement with Sun? > sure yo can distribute java, thats not the point... we could > even put it > in main or on the CD, sun would kiss us if we'd do... but read > the > license... once you ship it, you arent able to ship any other > java > implementation (not even gcj, which is a part of gcc now) ... > Well, once again, SuSE's doing it :). They use GCJ 4.0, and ship Java > with GCJ in the same directory of the publicly distributed DVD/CD's. > Not just that, they also ship it online in the inst-source-java folder > (which is a _REALLY_ cheap way to circumvent that).
It's not Java as in JDK, it's Java Runtime as in JRE...which is a real big difference. It's just like mfc40.dll and VisualStudio C++...you're allowed to redistribute mfc40.dll without any problems..but VisualStudio C++ will be a problem ;) \sh -- ubuntu-backports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-backports
