Re: GPL Java

2006-11-15 Thread Nicolas Pillot
2006/11/15, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Look at this situation more positively. Not so long ago, Sun paid absolutely no attention to GPL. Now they hope to gain public credit by pretending to supporting it. Maybe in a little while they will figure out a business strategy that allows them t

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-15 Thread John Hasler
hendrik writes: > But if a Sun dealer were to install Debian's Java package, would he still > be subject to these restrictions? They would be irrelevant. He would not be removing any logos. Do you really think Sun could sue a dealer who took a trade-in machine from which a customer had removed t

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-15 Thread Björn Lindström
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > But if a Sun dealer were to install Debian's Java package, would he > still be subject to these restrictions? And would that make it > non-DFSG? No, since that restriction wouldn't be put on the dealer by the license from Debian, but by their completely separate agreement wit

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 06:43:41PM +0100, Nicolas Pillot wrote: > Sorry, i sent it to the poster, not the list. > > 2006/11/15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> If I understand that correctly, the question is if the logo is DFSG free. > >> If it is not, Debian would have to remove it, b

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-15 Thread Nicolas Pillot
Sorry, i sent it to the poster, not the list. 2006/11/15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > If I understand that correctly, the question is if the logo is DFSG free. > If it is not, Debian would have to remove it, but that seems to not be > allowed by the trademark use guidelines. Er...

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-15 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 11:17:39PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Kelly Clowers writes: > > If I understand that correctly, the question is if the logo is DFSG free. > > If it is not, Debian would have to remove it, but that seems to not be > > allowed by the trademark use guidelines. > > Those rules

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread John Hasler
Kelly Clowers writes: > If I understand that correctly, the question is if the logo is DFSG free. > If it is not, Debian would have to remove it, but that seems to not be > allowed by the trademark use guidelines. Those rules are for Sun dealers. Debian is not and will never be a Sun dealer. Red

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 11/14/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Last I heard, you could only use the mane "Java" if you followed Sun's spec. That was the core of their lawsuit with Microsoft. But they nevet, to my knowledge required anything but conformance to a spec, never line-by-line approval of

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 11:50:45AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 11/14/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tuesday 14 November 2006 04:02, Gregory Seidman wrote: > >> Okay, so Java's GPL'd now: http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp > >> (Also http://java.net/ ) > >> >

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread Nate Duehr
Kelly Clowers wrote: I forgot about the Java "Coffee cup" logo, and I can't find any new info on it. You also forgot about the little triangle shaped guy that the Java JRE has included with it. (e.g. Task-tray Java guy logo on Windows machines that are running the JRE -- or whatever they ca

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 11/14/06, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The equivilant of the Firefox problem would be if "Duke", the Java mascot was under a non-free licence and Sun said the you could not use the trademark "Java" without including Duke. But as far as I know, Sun has not said that, and anyway, Du

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 11/14/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 14 November 2006 04:02, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Okay, so Java's GPL'd now: http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp > (Also http://java.net/ ) > > How soon will we see packages in main at long last? Granted, a buildable >

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Tuesday 14 November 2006 04:02, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Okay, so Java's GPL'd now: http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp > (Also http://java.net/ ) > > How soon will we see packages in main at long last? Granted, a buildable > JDK isn't expected until Spring of next year... I'm going

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/14/06 07:41, Gustavo Franco wrote: > On 11/14/06, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Okay, so Java's GPL'd now: http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp >> (Also http://java.net/ ) >> >> How soon will we see packages in main at l

Re: GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread Gustavo Franco
On 11/14/06, Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Okay, so Java's GPL'd now: http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp (Also http://java.net/ ) How soon will we see packages in main at long last? Granted, a buildable JDK isn't expected until Spring of next year... Hi Gregory, Short

GPL Java

2006-11-14 Thread Gregory Seidman
Okay, so Java's GPL'd now: http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp (Also http://java.net/ ) How soon will we see packages in main at long last? Granted, a buildable JDK isn't expected until Spring of next year... --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u