Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!nuzba.szn.dk!pnx.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Nigel Wade Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.help Subject: Re: Bundle JDK in my app Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 09:15:11 +0000 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <104d950c-186a-4cfb-9c18-ff0ae7f6f3ca@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net tjL4828fYyVIDuK6V0se4w4petTzdGIOU2aEsFbOk86vxjk4ww Cancel-Lock: sha1:Erk45Hk/oHmvT5Cdx6N6xqfJbp0= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120601 Thunderbird/13.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.help:2604 On 16/03/13 00:24, Roedy Green wrote: > On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 16:42:10 +0000, Nigel Wade > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : > >> >> Because the license terms for the Oracle JDK restrict what you are allowed to redistribute. > > One of the advantages of distributing an installer that goes and gets > the JVM is you bypass any restrictions on what you can bundle. All > you are doing is an assisted install. It also ensures you don't > pollute the universe with obsolete JVMs. > If you bothered to read the thread you'd have known that the issue is components of the JDK, not the JVM. If you'd even read my post properly you should have realized that. JDK != JVM and has different re-distribution rights. -- Nigel Wade