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...
Anyway, according the the link I posted (which I can't check myself),
you can now use RHEL up2date to get sun java, so Red Hat must have
worked something out too.
So what is the magic command with up2date to get that? Or what repo is
it coming from?
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