Marc St-Jean writes:
On Jan 11, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Dominic Duval wrote:
On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 18:08, Marc St-Jean wrote:I understood that some Linux distros (RedHat?) were distributing the Blackdown JRE so there must be one live contact email where they were able to verify licensing.
RedHat does not distribute Blackdown binaries. RedHat only distributes the IBM JRE and SDK to its customers.
I'm not 100% sure about other distributions, but I haven't heard about any distro shipping with the Blackdown JRE or JDK. I might be wrong though.
Dominic, do you know if RedHat was distributing Blackdown before the IBM JRE/SDK became available?
I've been using Red Hat since 1996. I do not recall Red Hat ever shipping Blackdown.
Also do you know if did they have to obtain a commercial distribution license with either IBM and/or Sun?
Red Hat ships IBM's JRE/SDK only with their "Enterprise" product line, AFAIK, which costs a few grand per seat.
So, yeah, there's a license in there somewhere. Almost a certainty. But only from IBM. I can't think of any reason why Red Hat would need a Sun license. AFAIK, IBM's JRE/SDK is not derived from Sun's codebase.
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