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From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
To: "Ernst de Haan" <znerd@FreeBSD.org>, <java@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: Sun License for JDK 1.4 forces automatic updates ?!!
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 20:56:46 +0200
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ernst de Haan" <znerd@FreeBSD.org>
To: <java@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 1:17 PM
Subject: Sun License for JDK 1.4 forces automatic updates ?!!


> It seems the license for J2SE 1.4 SDK is quite intrusive. Sun allows
> themselves to automatically install updates to the JDK!
>
> See:
> http://hal.trinhall.cam.ac.uk/~nrs27/java_eula.html
>
> This sounds a scary to me. Looks like Sun is thinking: If Microsoft can
get
> away with it, so can we.
>
> I believe we should consider banning the Sun JDK 1.4 for Linux.

With all due respect I think we should stay well and far away from
prescribing policy the way you are suggesting. It is exclusively up to the
user to decide whether using products covered by the Sun license is
acceptable or not.

-J


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