IcedTea on Appliances

[Andrew Haley]

On 05/05/2010 06:27 PM, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
> 
> On 05/05/10 18:23, Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 17:26 +0100, Jonathan Tripathy wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Is someone allowed to distribute IcedTea with an "Appliance" (e.g. Set
>>> Top Box, Firewall, etc..) without paying Oracle for a licence?
>>>      
>> Of course! It is all GPLed.
>> We even have a cross compile FAQ to help you out if you need to build
>> for an embedded machine on which you cannot build things directly:
>> http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/CrossCompileFaq
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>    
> 
> Your answer is the answer I was hoping to hear, but the others are
> putting doubts in my head...

If you'd asked the same question about any piece of free software you'd
have got the same answer!  Even the *FSF*, when asked "Am I allowed to ..."
about a piece of GPL'd software, say "read the licence".

Andrew.