[gameprogrammer] Re: java

[Bob Pendleton <bob@pendleton.com>]

On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 20:32 +0700, Ace wrote:
> On 4/7/07, Roger D Vargas <luo_hei@yahoo.es> wrote:
> > If you think so... take some time to read the license.
> > Or go to http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp and try to
> > download. Perhaps somebody  here can translate and interpret what menas
> > the following message:           Error: Transaction stopped. The selected
> > product(s) cannot be provided to your location.
> 
> how about the other Java SDK implementation such as gcj that is
> included in most of linux distro? or project harmony in apache?
> 
> Is the same law is applicable?

Anything downloaded from the US is subject to the same law. OTOH, a lot
of the work on the open source versions of java are done outside the US
and are not subject to US laws. Look around for a download site out side
the US and see what you can find.

For a long time the Kerberos code that you could down load from the US
had a stub for the encryption function. The code and documentation
contained the name of an ftp site in Europe where you could down load
the real encryption code. It seems it is OK to import strong encryption
into the US, but not to export it. :-)

		Bob Pendleton

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