Java licencing

Greg Lewis glewis at eyesbeyond.com
Tue Dec 23 07:50:33 UTC 2008


On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:12:16PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> If I understand Sun's JRE license correctly, if I have an application in
> Java I can't distribute the JRE binaries as a part of a VMWare image or
> a LiveCD without a "trademark license agreement" with Sun. Would it be
> possible with OpenJDK?

OpenJDK is under the GPL, so you can distribute it under those terms.

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