Dockerized IdP

[Ian Young]

> On 8 Mar 2016, at 17:30, John Gasper <jgasper at unicon.net> wrote:
> 
> Item A, I'll check to see if the license is include in the otherwise
> unmodified Java distribution.

I do not believe that just including the license is enough to satisfy the terms. If it was, I am pretty sure that Docker Hub would have an official Java base image containing the Oracle JDK and we wouldn't be having this conversation. We'd probably also have the Oracle JDK as an option in Linux distributions. Oracle used to allow this kind of redistribution, but now do not.

You may of course feel that you understand the Oracle license well enough to know how it applies (and better than, say, the Docker and Ubuntu people). If I were in your shoes, however, I would make sure that my employer's lawyers were of the same opinion.

> Item B, I'll check with Unicon's executives to see what they think about
> the indemnification section.

I think that's wise.

> If not, then yes I suppose we'll need to
> figure something else out, either using and throughly testing OpenJDK
> releases (which is much easier to do in container since the releases are
> controlled) or just providing the tidbits to add to the user's own image,
> which I think I mentioned in an earlier email.
> 
> Perhaps it does not matter, but I do not actually push to Docker Hub, but
> it does an automated build. :D

I have to doubt that making Docker Inc's systems violate the Oracle license on your behalf is really going to help you out much from a legal perspective.

I'd like to say I'm joking here, but I'm afraid I'm not. I (and the other project members) are probably a bit more sensitive about licensing issues than most, but in many cases it's because we've been bitten once and are now twice shy. As a result, we tend to read things like licenses very carefully and make sure that there's no way for things to come back to bite us. Sometimes that approach means you can't do what you'd like to, unfortunately.

	-- Ian

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