On Thu, 3 May 2007, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Radu Radutiu wrote:
Would it be possible to have Sun's JDK in a CentOS repository using Sun DLJ license? This license allows the binary JDK redistribution by linux distributions (as far as I know Ubuntu includes the JDK under this license).
we had a look at this a long time back, when the DLJ was announced initially
- and we didnt think it was open enough for us to ship Java, also there are
some legal issues that seem grey and the only response we could get from Sun was along the lines of 'go speak to your lawyers'.
We dont really have any layers, so we wont be speaking to them :)
The main issue is that Sun insist that we accept liability for 3rd party use - whilst Mark Shuttleworth has deep enough pockets - we dont ....
We are trying to work with Sun to remove this requirement though.
Regards Lance
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