Karanbir Singh wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: >>> We cant build and ship out the java stuff without using some jre / >>> jvm - IcedTea is not quite there yet. And I dont think we can >>> actually ship any jdk due to licensing issues. Could we ? >> >> I'm sure you can ship jre, always have "with your application." Wrt >> jdk, I'd check the licence with the latest, and if in doubt ask Sun or >> ship something to download it and install it from Sun's site. > > I am relatively sure that putting jre in a repo didnt meet the criteria > of 'with the app'. Sun had something called the DDL for distro's that > wanted to ship their Java stack, however their terms didnt go down well > with the CentOS developers and also they wanted various bits of paper > signed etc. So, imho, Sun's stuff is quite far off the radar. What arrangement does Canonical have for Ubuntu? > > RedHat seem to rely on Bea stack, does anyone have a decent idea on what > their terms might be ? Would someone like to actually knock on their > door and ask ? > -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)