On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:42:39 +0100, Nick Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Java's unsupported more or less. See the FAQ:
http://openbsd.org/faq/faq8.html#Programming
"Due to Sun's restrictive SCSL license, OpenBSD cannot ship binary
packages for the JDK. This means you will have to build it from ports.
Note that you will need plenty of RAM for this build to succeed."
Sorry :(

I this information still current, now that Java has released the JDK under the terms of the GPL?

        https://openjdk.dev.java.net/

I really hope that there will be an improvement of the situation for OpenBSD soon, including proper Java packages. But I am not a lawyer, correct me if I am wrong.

Bernd

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