[News.eclipse.foundation] Re: Open source JDK project

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse4@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Blewitt wrote:
> You can already ship an RCP with an embedded JRE, by placing the
> runtime in a subdirectory called 'jre'. It shouldn't be too hard to
> modify e.g. customTargets.xml to perform the copying for you if you
> wanted to, and had a suitable JRE to hand.

Eclipse supports it, but re-distributing a JRE is not just a matter of 
shipping it with your product. IANAL, but the last time I looked into 
re-distribution there were some hairy license terms that prohibited it. 
That may have changed in the past couple of years, but I'd be surprised.
I think this thread was thinking of the possibility of Eclipse building 
and shipping its own JVM implementation, instead of having to rely on 
the (bloated) Sun implementation.

Interesting idea, but I'm not sure that falls within the charter of the 
foundation.

	Eric