IcedTea on Appliances

[Andrew Haley]

On 05/05/2010 06:26 PM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
> 
> 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).

I think so.

> Are there some exceptions to the above rule? Why should I consult a
> lawyer, is what I'm asking.

Because "Is someone allowed to distribute ..." is explicitly a request
for legal advice.  I don't think there's any other way to interpret that
question.

Andrew.