So how can Debian use this?

Posted May 18, 2006 6:02 UTC (Thu) by xtifr (guest, #143)
In reply to: So how can Debian use this? by xtifr
Parent article: Java becomes more distributable

Quick followup to my earlier comment. The announcement sent to the Debian Developers Announcement List says, "During the past weeks there has been close collaboration between Sun engineers and Debian and Ubuntu developers." Which definitely implies (or at least suggests) that Sun is both aware of and amenable to Debian's actions in this, and is thus unlikely to complain.

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg...

As for Debian's side, well, in my experience, they tend to be very strict about what goes in main, and very liberal about what goes in non-free, so I'm not really surprised by all this. And if there are still unresolved issues (and I agree that it seems like there might be), I'm sure the people who love to debate license terms on the Debian lists will be discussing them soon enough.