Re: Tomcat 4.0 unofficial debs
Ainsi parlait Stefan Gybas :
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 02:43:55PM +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> > Are you sure about this ?
>
> Yes, there has been some discussion about this on the jakarta mailing
> lists.
>
> > Does it means anyone can provide package for them ?
>
> Yes, read the license: You can freely distribute the unmodified JARs
> if you include the license.
>
> > Is it true for every sun "binary code license" java API ?
>
> No, just for some of the "extensions". You can find all these JARs in
> almost all Jakarta projects.
It means at least every extension ever used in jakarta projects qualify for
this. As the need for such extension was the only reason for packaging them,
we should now provide complete packages instead of just spec files for
jpackage project non-free section. Good :-)
> > Is it true for the JDK itself ?
>
> No, the core classes have a different license.
Too bad :-(
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