Re: Licensing questions

Marc St-Jean <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:21:09 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.linux.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jan 11, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Juergen Kreileder wrote:

> Marc St-Jean writes:
>
>> BTW, I went to verify how the "blackdown binary license" would be 
>> different from the Sun license with regards to distribution with a 
>> distro. However after downloading twice from the ftp.tux.org mirror 
>> the LICENSE file at the root of the 1.4.2-01 directory appears to be 
>> corrupt. In the SUPPLEMENTAL LICENSE TERNS sub-section B. is 
>> truncated at "... agree to defe". Sub-section C. has a (v) clause 
>> with no text. Sub-section E. is truncated at "... reproduced in its 
>> enti". Could someone please verify this file?
>
> You're right.  Calvin, this is a problem inherited from the Sun source,
> the jdk/jre licenses are broken in the 07-fcs code.
>
>
> 	Juergen

Other than the corruption it appears to be the same as the Sun JDK 
1.4.2_X license.
This prompts me to ask, is the Blackdown license supposed to be 
different from Sun's?

Marc


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