Re: ibm jdk licence
When the whole mess came up to begin with, I sent an email over to our
friend Bruce Perens. He said that before he talked with IBM, he wanted
something hashed out in debian-legal. I myself never started the thread;
finals were too imposing.
It might be a Good Idea to bring it up on debian-legal; or check the
archives of debian-legal and see if they discussed it yet.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 12:19:38PM +0100, Robert Varga wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
> > On Monday 10 January 2000, at 18 h 19, the keyboard of Robert Varga
> > <robi@piros.zold.net> wrote:
> >
> > > What is the current state of licensing the IBM jdk?
> >
> > I don't know, the installer is still in "contrib", but contains very few info
> > about the licencing issues. You could file a bug/wishlist against it on this
> > subject.
> >
> > > Is it possible to obtain a licence for Debian 2.1?
> >
> > It would still be non-free, because of item 8 in the DFSG "License Must Not Be
> > Specific to Debian".
> >
> > See bug #54641 for an issue about IBM JDK.
> >
>
> My interest is not in what distribution (main or contrib) the ibm-jdk can
> be put in, but whether I can use IBM jdk on a debian machine at all.
>
> I don't know where to put that ominous 3 lines about the 'program code may
> be used only in conjunction with RH 6.0 and Caldera 2.2' (not exact
> quotation). Does this forbid the usage ibm jdk with debian linux or not?
>
> We are to ship a system where we suggested debian linux and ibm jdk. Due
> to the licensing it seems unclear whether this combination is legal or
> not. We don't want to replace either components, since we don't trust
> other JDKs due to stability issues with every other jdk tried, and
> naturally we would not like to use neither redhat nor caldera due to
> obvious reasons (redhat being nowhere near to being secure, and caldera is
> not really known to us, therefore we would not dare to provide support for
> it).
>
> TIA,
>
> Robert Varga
>
>
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