"Johan Walles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As mentioned by somebody on Debian-legal, > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/libswt3.1-gtk-java says: > "SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit) provides functionality similar to Swing". > > The DLJ at http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-v1.1.txt says: "do not > combine, configure or distribute the Software to run in conjunction > with any additional software that implements the same or similar > functionality or APIs as the Software". > > If I'm reading the DLJ correctly, this means Debian isn't allowed to > distribute SUN's JDK if that makes it possible to run SWT apps with > it. Not being able to run Eclipse (which is an SWT app) would make > Debian's JDK package useless for me.
So this is a different wrinkle of the problem. Here, SWT is not invoked directly by Sun's JDK, but a program does use both at the same time. If Sun's license had said run in conjunction with any additional java software instead of run in conjunction with any additional software then there would not be a problem. The end result of this is that Debian must be even more careful when declaring that a package can run with Sun's JDK. Debian must not only check whether the package itself implements a similar API, but must also check all of the users of the package and their dependencies. This could end up encompassing most of the java packages in Debian. Sun's java would still be useful for developing applications, but not so useful for running applications distributed by Debian. Cheers, Walter Landry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
