--- Peter Gordon <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > The article below shows that Sun will license java > > > > > http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3606656 > > > > How will it affect the java issue within Fedora? > > > > The license has to be looked at carefully? > > > > >From what I can see, it's still a binary-only > packaging, which > means that it is no Free and Fedora will *not* be > able to > distribute it with the rest of the distribution. > > That said, however, it may make it eaasier for > maintainers from > repositories such as Livna and JPackage (both highly > unofficial, > as far as I know) to package it in an > easier-to-install format > (instead of having the user grab the sources, > install the libraries, > run the alternatives stuff manually, etc.) > > -- > Peter Gordon (codergeek42) > This message was sent through a webmail > interface, and thus not signed. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > True. Anyhow a followup to the story is that Red Hat/Fedora is not too happy with the new license. They would prefer that it be open source Java. I believe many people will agree with their stance. http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2006/05/18/red_hat_sun_java_license/ Regards, Antonio __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
