[Nix-dev] Java license, how to present it for acceptance ?

Marc Weber marco-oweber at gmx.de
Sun Feb 1 02:02:47 CET 2009


On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 08:55:15PM -0200, Arie Middelkoop wrote:
> You also may not want to see the license in the first place. For
> example, if you install a java application, then to build it you'd need
> some JDK. The isolation of Nix ensures that the JDK is only visible to
> that application. And if that application can only use the JDK in the
> way required by the license, then there is no use to show the license to
> the user.

I haven't read the license with that much attention.
But my impression was that in the JRE/JDK case they don't care that much
wether you run javac or java.. It's the same. You use the Java platform.

Marc



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