Do You Know Where The New Java Licenses Are?
After seeing press reports like this InfoWorld article, I tried to find an online copy of the two new licenses that they are talking about. But I couldn't.
Can anyone point me to online versions of either the JIUL (The Java Internal Use License) or the JDL (The Java Distribution License)?
I'm not sure if these licenses are what Jonathan Schwartz alluded to two days ago.
My hope is that these licenses will allow Red Hat (or any other OS vendor) to distribute Sun's Java with Fedora Core (or whatever other Linux or BSD distributions they are offering). So far, no one in the press has covered this aspect of the Licenses.
Re: Do You Know Where The New Java Licenses Are?
My hope is that these licenses will allow Red Hat (or any other OS vendor) to distribute Sun's Java with Fedora Core (or whatever other Linux or BSD distributions they are offering). So far, no one in the press has covered this aspect of the Licenses.Well, I tried. But there wasn't anything really forthcoming. Here's a snippet of my conversation with Graham Hamilton:
Lastly, how has the distribution license of the JVM changed? Has it changed at all? This is one of the elements that prevents the Sun JVM from being distributed or made available for many linux distributions such as Debian.There haven't been any changes in the binary distribution licenses. We'd be very happy to see linux distributions like Debian include the JRE. As far as I know, the binary licenses aren't the issue there.