I actually called Sun a week ago about licensing JRE for something I'm working on. After a few days I Eventually got a callback from regional manager Shawnee Williams. She said that it was allright if I created an installer which had JRE and its installer built in, I did say that I wouldn't modify the original JRE installer but I got the impression that it was allright either way.
------Original Message------ From: "Mr.Bad" <[email protected]> To: devl at freenetproject.org Sent: May 1, 2001 6:57:12 PM GMT Subject: [freenet-devl] JRE License >>>>> "B" == Bad <mr.bad at pigdog.org> writes: B> Also, IIRC, there are some redistribution issues with adding a B> JRE to your projects -- which is one reason that it's rare to B> see JREs included with Free Software projects. B> Has anyone checked this out yet? OK, I just did check it out, and I'm pretty sure that adding the JRE is very inappropriate. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3/jre/j2re-1_3_0-linux-license.html Two things in particular bug me: * The package with JRE included is non-redistributable. That is, people can't download the exe with the JRE in it and post it anywhere. * We agree to indemnify Sun against any problems with the JRE. This seems totally reckless and stupid. I understand why there is support for having this in the distributed exe, but it just seems like a really bad idea. --NOTE--NOTE--NOTE--NOTE--NOTE--NOTE--NOTE--NOTE--NOTE--NOTE-- For this reason, I've deleted the *-withjava-* stuff from
