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On Thu, 12 May 2005, Yannick Menager wrote: |
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> Circumventing the implicit wishes of the copyright holder ??? |
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> The case with JDocs is very different, they do not provide a *tool* to |
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> download/view/manipulates the J2SE API, they took it, and put it online |
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> on their website, which the license does not allow for. |
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> The equivalent of what they did is the equivalent of us putting the jdk |
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> binary in the gentoo mirrors, which is indeed not allowed by the |
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> license. |
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Why does the copyright holder, Sun, not grant the Gentoo Foundation a |
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license to distribute the binary? Weird territory, but could a license be |
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purchased from Sun for a, hopefully, nominal amount? Or, even, why would |
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Sun want to charge the Gentoo Foundation any money at all? |
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Which brings up the contract. I've downloaded and never read the |
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contract, nor do I plan to. So long as I don't redistribute the JVM, why |
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does Sun even want a contract in the first place? |
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-Thufir |
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