I'm not a lawyer, but JBoss has a lawyer and he says that it is OK to 
redistribute this stuff.  As a side note, I think we have a binary 
license for it.

-dain

James Ward wrote:

> So, I was reading some of Sun's licensing agreements (I know that's
> weird), and I noticed this:
> 
> 1. Software Internal Use and Development License Grant. Subject to the
> terms and conditions of this Agreement, including, but not limited to,
> Section 4 (Java Technology Restrictions) of these Supplemental Terms,
> Sun grants you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited license to
> reproduce internally and use internally the binary form of the Software,
> complete and unmodified, for the sole purpose of designing, developing
> and testing your Java applets and applications ("Programs"), provided
> that you do not redistribute the Software in whole or in part, either
> separately or included with any Programs.
> 
> Is JBoss in violation of this since they redistribute the j2ee.jar with
> JBoss?  Now, IANAL but it sounds like Sun has made it pretty clear that
> I as a J2EE developer can use the j2ee technologies for development
> without any problems, but a J2EE app server would have to license the
> j2ee technologies in order to have a server implement them.  I am just
> curious.   Thanks JBoss, You guys still are the best!
> 
> -James
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