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 -- uklinux.net - The ISP of choice for the discerning Linux user.