[gobolinux-devel] Java?

[MJ Ray]

Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> Could the fact that Debian accepted the DLJ fast, without doing the
> normal procedure, have anything to do with Ubuntu's collaboration with
> Sun (also asked in the debian-legal thread)?

I don't know.  I have no data to decide that.  I tend to favour cock-up 
over conspiracy: I think the current DPL is a poor project manager (or 
was at that point in time, at least) and supported railroading this 
questionably-licensed Java into the archive, an obviously divisive act, 
so that he could get named on a Sun press release.

> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2006/05/msg00086.html

I doubt this is going to be fixed soon - as a common opinion seems to be 
that only those who were involved in the decision are liable if this 
goes wrong (as they are the only parties who can have consented to the 
licence), many debian developers are ignoring it. With any luck, Sun 
will make good their pledge to relicense it under a free licence (not 
the CDDL, I hope) and make this bug obsolete.

Thanks,
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