Running non-free software

[Andrew Haley]

On 01/21/2010 04:18 PM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Can IcedTea be used to run non-free (i.e.proprietary) software?

Yes.

> We lease
> out computers to customers, which run linux, and wish to include the
> FOSS IcedTea, however our Java application is non-free, so I was wonder
> if there were any licensing issues that I'd need to be aware of?
> 
> I'm ok with the normal GPL stuff (Give out source code, don't restrict
> distribution for IcedTea and other GPL applications etc..)

There's not really a special IcedTea licence.  It's GPL plus an
exception that makes it a bit more liberal (the "Classpath
exception".)  So, if you're happy with GPL, you're fine.

Andrew.