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
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 07:27:12PM -0500, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
> Not only aren't they open source,
Whats the standing regarding Suns "Community Source License"? JDK
1.2.2 is released under that license as source. The FreeBSD people
used it to make their port.
> they aren't freely distrib
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.
Sun's stance on Java licensing still makes it a license prohibitive
technology as far as Open Source/Free Software goes, at leas
Ingo Luetkebohle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> is there a reason RedHat does not include Java into the core
> distribution?
Yes (we do include kaffe, gcj and jikes, though)
> If its licensing related
Yes.
> -- what about putting it into Powertools?
Not only aren't they open source, they are
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 rea
