[Libreoffice] LibreOffice and Java

Caolán McNamara caolanm at redhat.com
Tue Nov 2 03:29:06 PDT 2010


On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 01:50 +0200, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> There's a thing not clear to me and that involved go-oo too: the 
> relationship between LibreOffice and Java. Here i'm referring to the 
> Windows environment but under Linux/Mac should be the same.
> 
> Java isn't provided with the installer as with OpenOffice...

Hmm, yeah, that's true. I believe this is due to uncertainty around the
various clauses in the Redistribution text in the stock Java licence, so
safest option was not to redistribute it as part of the stock windows
installer bundle.

C.



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