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Re: Java debs anyone?



On Mon, 2004-12-13 at 10:51 +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
> Sun, 12 Dec 2004 23:05:18 +0200, 
> Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra <leandro@dutra.fastmail.fm> wrote: 
> 
> > Em Dom, 2004-12-12 às 13:57 -0500, Michel Dänzer escreveu:
> >> On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 12:01 +0200, Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti
> >> Dutra wrote:
> >> > 	I already reported my problems trying alien on the IBM Java
> >> > SDK... perhaps someone would be willing to share it already
> >> > debianised?
> >> 
> >> Does the licence allow redistribution (in modified form)?
> >
> > 	Good question... if I hadn't to write two reports now I'd read the
> > license, but I guess the answer is no.
> 
> You cannot redistribute *even unmodified*! And you cannot install tools
> that intend to replace tools in the JDK (java, javac, javah, jar,
> jarsigner, etc)... Sun's, IBM's and Blackdown's JDK/JRE are free of
> charge but not free software *at all*
> 

Yes and we are not supposed to download free music either but I hear
there are folks who actually do this...

This is the perfect excuse to dump Java and start using Mono.

-- 
Eric Gaumer <gaumer@egaumer.com>

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