| -----Original Message----- | From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Tuesday, 05 December, 2006 11:13 | | The blackdown JDK is one of the oldest non-Sun JDKs available for Linux. | I believe that it is completely open source. Someone mentioned that | blackdown was based on Sun's code... I think that's completely false: | blackdown was always a "more free" competitor to Sun's implementation.
Actually, I believe the Blackdown JDK was based on an early (1.0.7?) Sun JRE, and then extended to provide support for later Java versions. ISTR that some early Blackdown versions were just patch sets you had to apply to a JDK you already had installed. Ultimately, Javasoft released the 1.2 JDK sources to the Blackdown team (technically, they "licensed" the J2SE code base under the "Sun Scholarship" banner), and Sun eventually wound up supporting Java on Linux themselves. Anyone know if Debian is willing to support Sun's JDK now that it's GPL'd? The information contained in this message is confidential proprietary property of FACTS/Nelnet Business Solutions. Any reproduction, forwarding, or copying without the express permission of FACTS/Nelnet Business Solutions is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this e-mail. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
