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Re: jdk1.1 license changes



On Sun, Oct 31, 1999 at 10:23:08AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote:

> The jdk is, was and always will be *non-free*.  This will not
> change, no matter what licence SUN uses as they don't want Redmond
> fragmenting the Java trade-mark (something any DFSG-compliant
> licence would allow).

Au contrair - there are licenses that say "if you change this code
(Foobar), you CANNOT call the result Foobar, but must change the
name".

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