Java licencing

[Ivan Voras]

Greg Lewis wrote:
> 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.

Do you know if the OpenJDK Java interpreter and its libraries count into
the viral aspect of the GPL? (I guess yes since it's the same
process/address space).

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