Anthony Towns wrote:
On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 08:30:42AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:Anthony Towns wrote:Hrm? There was a clause that said something to the effect of third parties not being able to distribute it at all (ie, you have to get it from blackdown or Sun) when it was last uploaded. I don't recall any contamination stuff.The license forbids to distribute anything which might be used to replace parts of the Java package (e.g. another run time or Java library).Hrm, must've been a different license to the one that I saw then. (I can't imagine anyone uploading that license to NEW anyway, so...)
Citing from http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/j2sdk-1_4_2_04-license.txt from the supplemental terms:C.License to Distribute Redistributables. Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, including but not limited to the Java Technology Restrictions of
these Supplemental Terms, Sun grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable,
limited license without fees to reproduce and distribute those files
specifically identified as redistributable in the Software "README" file
("Redistributables") provided that:
[snip]
*(ii) you do not distribute
additional software intended to supersede any component(s) of the
Redistributables (unless otherwise specified in the applicable README
file)*,
[snip]That could cover jikes, for example, or jakarta libraries, since the JDK 1.4.x already includes them.
It's an explicitely non-DFSG free license, really. cheers, dalibor topic