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Yes, you can't redistribute the JRE, but you <i><b>can</b></i> bundle
it, it's covered by a supplemental license which allows this. It
couldn't be included in linux distros because it said: <br>
<pre>...provided that you: (i)distribute
the Software complete and unmodified, only as part of, and for the
sole purpose of running, your Java applet or application...
(ii) do not distribute additional software intended to replace any
component(s) of the Software...
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which distros fail on both counts.<br>
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The new license is especially for OS vendors to get around this.<br>
I'm just installing the debian package which has to put up a click
through license etc.<br>
You then seem to have to run update-alternatives --config java, to get
it selected as the default.<br>
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David Sheldon wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:15:48PM +0100, Dave wrote:
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<pre wrap="">To that degree
you can distribute java along with the program and a shell script to do
it for you.
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I'm not sure you can, unless the recent licence change now allows that.
David
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