From: Thufir <hawat.thufir@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-java] Re: Sun JDK fetching
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2006 08:07:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0609090802500.7352@neenxvf.ubzryvahk.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1115906306.11150.233981021@webmail.messagingengine.com>
On Thu, 12 May 2005, Yannick Menager wrote:
[...]
> Circumventing the implicit wishes of the copyright holder ???
[...]
> The case with JDocs is very different, they do not provide a *tool* to
> download/view/manipulates the J2SE API, they took it, and put it online
> on their website, which the license does not allow for.
>
> The equivalent of what they did is the equivalent of us putting the jdk
> binary in the gentoo mirrors, which is indeed not allowed by the
> license.
Why does the copyright holder, Sun, not grant the Gentoo Foundation a
license to distribute the binary? Weird territory, but could a license be
purchased from Sun for a, hopefully, nominal amount? Or, even, why would
Sun want to charge the Gentoo Foundation any money at all?
Which brings up the contract. I've downloaded and never read the
contract, nor do I plan to. So long as I don't redistribute the JVM, why
does Sun even want a contract in the first place?
-Thufir
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2006-09-09 7:07 ` Thufir [this message]
2006-09-09 15:49 ` [gentoo-java] Re: Sun JDK fetching David Herron
2006-09-09 18:33 ` Greg Tassone
2006-09-10 2:08 ` [gentoo-java] Java Open Source - was: " David Herron
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