On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:05:25AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote:
> With the current license, this won't be installed as part of the base
> kernel. (GPL and/or LGPL)
I understand it'll continue to be a port. Am I hearing that it is
unacceptable even as a temporary solution because of the license ?
> It's been answered time and time again over the past months, so you must
> not be paying attention. The binary distribution hasn't been created
> because we don't have a legal license to do so (yet).
Yes, I've been reading that for a long time now, but it (what Sun is
doing) doesn't make any sense to me. Are Sun's reasons
(a) Technical ? Passing of JCK etc ?
(b) Political ? Yet another competitor to Solaris ?
>From your posting it appears that it's technical (not passing JCK), as
well as political (not getting the license to run JCK). What is their
answer reg: blackdown.org doing the same ?
May be getting Zdnet to publish an article on this is the right way to
go ? The bug parades and votes didn't seem to help much.
> In summary, a Java binary distribution of JDK1.2.2 will come out *very
> soon* after a usable license with Sun has been signed. Hopefully, we'll
> have a JDK1.3 binary distribution soon after, as Greg Lewis has made
> alot of progress on it and has it limping along right now.
That's good to hear. Eagerly awaiting the news.
-Arun
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