Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Mon Nov 21 07:29:04 CST 2005


John wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> John wrote:
>> 
>>>I've not checked the licence recently, so I don't know what the specific
>>>objections you have. Sun has always agreed to folk distributing jre with
>>>their Java apps.
>> 
>> Sun approves you distributing for a _specific_ java app.  "Linux" can
>> hardly qualify.
> 
> You haven't read it either. I have, now.
> 
> A component of a Linux distribution would qualify.

See my previous post.  Yes, I've read it.  More often than any other EULA
and, while IANAL, I can't see a way that Ubuntu could distribute it -
except _perhaps_ on a CD.
-- 
derek




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