Re: Licensing questions

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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