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

[Alex Blewitt <alex_blewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that it's not within the remit of the Eclipse foundation, but remember that 'distributing a JRE' is not the same as 'redistributing the Sun JRE'. There are JREs that you can use to run Eclipse at the moment, though perhaps not taking advantage of everything (and certainly not Java (TM) compatible). 

However, the existence of a version of a JRE that you don't have license to redistribute does not preclude there being any JRE that you can redistribute.

Alex.