Re: Redistribution of JSSE in a java package

[Rene Mayrhofer <rene.mayrhofer@gibraltar.at>]

Stephen Stafford wrote:
> Henning Makholm has expressed some concerns in another mail which are valid.
> History shows that Sun might be willing to grant an exception to alleviate
> some of them though (see the exceptions given to blackdown.org for J2SE,
> which is pretty much the same license AFAICT).  However, this 2(c) article
> in the "Supplemental" section is the absolute killer IMO.  Debian should
> *not* agree to indemnify Sun against some third party deciding to sue them.
> In fact, as there is a disclaimer of warranty, why are they even asking for
> this?  I really *REALLY* dislike this clause, and I believe that it means
> that we cannot redistribute anything released under this license.
First of all, thanks to you and Henning Makholm for clarifying some of 
the paragraphs.

As it does not seem to be a good idea to redistribute JSSE, what is the 
preferred way of using it ? An installer package ? Would that eliminate 
the negative impact of the mentioned paragraphs on Debian (since we are 
not redistributing it) ?

best regards,
Rene


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