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Re:Packr – Packages Java apps for distribution on Windows, L... by annnnd on Monday May 05, 2014 @08:13AM (#7698064)
I wonder if there are some legal ramifications to this. As far as I understand Packr redistributes Sun/Oracle JRE - does license allow them to do that?

AFAIK JRE is under GPL, so it should be OK, but I am guessing Oracle still retained some copyright? (I am genuinly curious - it's been a long time since I touched non-Android Java)

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Re:Packr – Packages Java apps for distribution on Windows, L... by chii on Monday May 05, 2014 @08:25AM (#7698113)
I m under the impression that sun (and oracle) lets you freely redistribute the JRE runtime.
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Re:Packr – Packages Java apps for distribution on Windows, L... by badlogic on Monday May 05, 2014 @09:05AM (#7698297)
packr author here. I don't distribute any JRE. Doing so for the original Sun/Oracle JRE is indeed a problem. Doing so for OpenJDK is not.
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