On Wed, 15 May 2002, Hill, Benjamin W wrote:
> >AFAIK there's no debian-package of the official Sun J2EE/J2SE, but that
> >doesn't mean you can't install the rpm or the tar.gz package.
>
> Does this not come under the terms of Sun Licensing? Is anyone else allowed
> to package the SDK?
IIRC the fact both Sun's and Blackdown's JDK come under Sun Licensing is
the main reason why they're not in Debian-proper. Whoever distributes a
version of a JDK from Sun, wil also be obliged to help Sun if they are
sued over issues in a java-package from them; at least that's what I
remember from a discussion about this issue a while back on the subject
of packaging the Blackdown JDK for Debian-proper.
>From a quick Google; Stephen Zander is probably the person to ask, he had
some pre-release of the 'official' Debian Blackdown-packages on his
home-page on people.d.o (The answer should also be in the archives, but
couldn't find it easily.)
regards,
Thomas
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