Status of the jdk1.1 package and grave bug #37599
According to bug #37599, Stephen Zander sent mail to Sun's licensing
folks to check on the legal status of the jdk1.1 packages. The last
message attached to bug 37599 is dated May 16, 1999.
Has any progress been made since then? Any word from Sun? I know
lawyers can take a long time, but there should have at least been an
acknowledgement of receipt of the question by now.
I notice that Wichert's release-critical bugs page suggests removing
this package; however, I can't find any part of the JDK license from
Sun that says that the package cannot be reorganized as an "installer"
style package similar to Netscape, RealPlayer, ICQ, etc.
Would this be an acceptable compromise? Ordinarily I'd just say "yes"
but this isn't a familiar package to me and I note that .diff.gz is
contains over 100 lines of non-documentation, non-Debian-package-specific
changes.
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Zygo Blaxell, Linux Engineer, Corel Corporation. zygob@corel.ca (work) or
zblaxell@furryterror.org (play). Opinions above are my own, not Corel's.
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