Re: Distributor License for Java: External Commentary

2006-05-25 Thread Adam Warner
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 22:33 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: On Tue, 23 May 2006 15:15:32 +1200 Adam Warner wrote: Hi all, [several comments] Some more press coverage: How Sun's Java got into Debian ([Front] Posted May 24, 2006 20:24 UTC (Wed) by corbet) http://lwn.net/Articles/184942/

Re: Distributor License for Java: External Commentary

2006-05-24 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 23 May 2006 15:15:32 +1200 Adam Warner wrote: Hi all, [several comments] Some more press coverage: Article by Gavin Clarke: Red Hat: Java Linux license does not go far enough 18 May 2006 http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/05/18/red_hat_sun_java_license/ Brian Stevens, Red Hat CTO,

Re: Distributor License for Java: External Commentary

2006-05-23 Thread Dalibor Topic
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 03:15:32PM +1200, Adam Warner wrote: Hi all, Commentary by Dalibor Topic: The license is, frankly, still pretty bad, and contains various nasty clauses: from the overly broad indemnification(i) part, which has nothing to do with Sun's JDK software, to the subsettig

Distributor License for Java: External Commentary

2006-05-22 Thread Adam Warner
Hi all, Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems: JDK on GNU/Linux: Something Wonderful 16 May 2006 http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/webmink?entry=jdk_on_gnu_linux_something Responds that it's OK to distribute along with GCJ, GNU/Classpath and so on - that was one of the