On Thu, 3 May 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
Lance Davis 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.
I don't see how, regardless of what the Sun agreement says, you could be
held any more or less responsible for redistributing java than any other
software component you redistribute. That is, someone would have to
successfully sue over damages from a software flaw first and if people could
do that, Microsoft would have been out of business many years ago. And it is
bound to be less buggy than the version you do distribute...
Yes - but indemnification of Sun for their legal fees is more than the
developers want to commit to .....
Regards
Lance
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