[Fedora-legal-list] License of jnlp-servlet.jar - part of Oracle JDK

[Tom Callaway]

On 11/11/2013 05:09 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Manuel Faux <manuel.faux at conf.at> wrote:
>>> Unfortunately the quoted license is non-free because it limits usage
>>> rights ("this software is not [...] licensed [...] for use in [...]").
>>> It would be free if the word "licensed" was removed from the last
>>> paragraph.
>>
>> I was afraid that this is a breaker.
> 
> If you can get Oracle to remove the word "licensed" from that clause,
> as Sun has done in the past, then it will be okay for Fedora:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2012-September/001967.html
> 
> Unfortunately, apparently Oracle has not been as friendly as Sun was
> in resolving these kinds of matters.  :-(

File a bug in their bug tracker, maybe we'll get lucky.

~tom

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