IcedTea on Appliances

[Jonathan Tripathy]

On 05/05/10 17:40, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 5 May 2010 17:26, Jonathan Tripathy<jonnyt at abpni.co.uk>  wrote:
>    
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> Is someone allowed to distribute IcedTea with an "Appliance" (e.g. Set Top
>> Box, Firewall, etc..) without paying Oracle for a licence?
>>
>> Thanks
>>      
> First of all, IcedTea has nothing to do with Oracle.  It's an
> independent project.
>
> IcedTea is a build harness for OpenJDK, along with other components
> (the Zero assembler and ARM ports for architectures beyond
> x86/x86_64/SPARC, a Free Software plugin and Web Start implementation,
> etc.).  For licensing, please consult the COPYING file in IcedTea and
> the license of dependencies such as OpenJDK.  For commercial
> deployment, it also may be worth consulting a lawyer.
>    

I was always under the impression that the whole of icedtea was released 
under GPL (With libraries having a linking exception).

Are there some exceptions to the above rule? Why should I consult a 
lawyer, is what I'm asking. I'm aware of my GPL obligations :)

Thanks