Re: Access to java compiler in Linux

Posted by JiHO-2 on Jun 17, 2009; 1:30am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Access-to-java-compiler-in-Linux-tp3692106p3692111.html

On 2009-June-16  , at 19:54 , Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, JiHO wrote:
>
>> But Wayne actually replied me off-list and I should have followed up
>> here. Putting tool.jar in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.13/jre/lib/
>> ext/
>> solves the issue.
>
> You mean tools.jar, not tool.jar.  And this is a solution you cannot
> legally distribute, except if you distribute the complete JDK.  In
> contrast, Fiji's javac.jar is derived from OpenJDK under the GPL, so  
> you
> are legally entitled to distribute it as long as you promise to  
> provide
> the sources for free (or almost free).
>
> So if you want to copy your setup somewhere else, I'd strongly  
> advise to
> distribute the javac.jar.

Thanks, that a good point. The software toolchain is indeed entirely  
GPL. I just installed Sun's java because I have had issues in the past  
with free JVMs, but that was a long time ago.

JiHO
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