Re: Bundle JDK in my app

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 10:20:19 -0700
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On 3/13/2013 5:13 AM, Iony wrote:

Hello,

Is it possible to bundle the full JDK7 (not JRE) in my application ?
Should I include the full JDK or am I allow to include only binaries in order to reduce the size ?

thank you


Just read the license agreement:

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