Martin Bochnig wrote: >SUNW: No one can ever meet your own DLJ license terms otherwise. >Because the DLJ covered "Distro-JDK" does NOT run without the SUNWspro >C++ Studio runtime. > >The official DLJ-FAQ states: > >more /newroot/LICENSES/DLJ-FAQ-v1.2.txt >[...] >- Ship only a compatible JDK on your OS. If notified of an >incompatibility, you must correct it and offer a patch or >replacement to downstream recipients within 90 days, or stop >shipment and notify downstream recipients. > >[...] > >Again, the libC* thing: The DLJ license REQUIRES distributors to ONLY > >install their distro-JDK on COMPATIBLE systems. To me this means, we > >_can_ > >include those libs. >It is in SUNW's own interest, because externally everyone will laugh >about us, otherwise. I mean Blastwave_marTux is going to offer a bootable >8.5GB DL-LiveDVD, but fails >to include 4 tiny files? >The dilemma of it is, that all other SUNWspro libs _can_ be redistributed >for years, according to what a few guys have told me. Only those 4 libC* files >do not fall under this special >regulation (only and alone, because those 4 files have been part of Solaris >since Solaris 2.0 [or so] was out, and there was no need to allow >redistribution of /usr/lib/libC*, because they were almost considered part of >the OS). > >I publically asked this question over a month ago, but didn't get a >solution so far. >
My current workaround: I'm currently forcing users to bring their net up first, set a route to the Internet, and automatically download and "install" the missing files (after every LiveDVD boot). But is this very "user-friendly?? (Note: Any dumb script can download the files [from public patches] from around the globe, but Belenix, Schillix or marTux_Blastwave are not permitted to include them? 4 files?) The libs are required by most things in /opt/csw, including KDE, icewm, xemacs, totem, gxine, xmms, and so forth. Since most CSW stuff is SUNWspro-built :-( No, I did not file a bug yet. But I repeatedly posted it to people and then to the list. It is normally not a Bug in OpenSolaris, but a bug in legal affairs. I will stop here, but ... :-( BTW, www.opensolaris.org is also down for at least 4 hours now. At least not reachable from Central E.U.rope. I wished, things like that would not happen that much. Kind regards, Martin Bochnig _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
