Matt Wilson wrote:
>
> It is because we cannot ship a JDK without licensing problems.
> Shipping a JRE on powertools may be an option if there is some other
> part of powertools that needs a JRE.
there are some package in the powertools which are not needed by any other
packages:-) and even jre would be useful (it's another question whether
sun's, ibm's or blackdown's jdk, jre ?)
> Sun's stance on Java licensing still makes it a license prohibitive
> technology as far as Open Source/Free Software goes, at least for
> distribution makers.
>
> Hopefully Sun will see that the Java world would be much better if
> they let it be freely redistributable.
anyway IMHO it'd be useful and wise to try to negotiate with sun (or ibm..)
about licensing problem, since if linux can support java than it can
help java against ms's c# which will be spread since they will ship
with their os and the average user don't have to download it (like java
now):-(((
ps. kaffe simple not enough.
> Cheers,
>
> Matt
>
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:25:57AM +0100, Ingo Luetkebohle wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is there a reason RedHat does not include Java into the core
> > distribution? If its licensing related -- what about putting it into
> > Powertools? For the record, Kaffe is cool but its not fully compatible
> > with newer developments (Swing, Java2, etc)
> >
> > Things that might be of interest (and are a really drain to download)
> > include the JDK, ant, Tomcat, the Apache XML stuff and so on.
>
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