Alan Cox wrote:
If you are a non-US citizen yes. Otherwise knowing merely makes you
liable for triple damages and other penalties...
How would knowing that the thing named java in fedora isn't really java
There isn't a package in Fedora named "java", and for good reason.
Fingers crossed that as Sun finishes GPLing the needed code this will all
change for the better.
Not a package, but an executable or a symlink, and if it isn't full java
it shouldn't be named java.
make you liable for anything? Or do you think that downloading the real
thing that Sun distributes freely puts you in enough jeopardy to justify
the bizarre contortions you have to do to make it work?
I was referring to the openoffice discussion that started this - which is
patent related.
I understand, but every discussion of user-unfriendliness seems to duck
behind legal covers when in fact it sometimes is just a refusal to
cooperate with anyone else. Why would a push-button link to install Sun
java in a standard way be such a problem? I believe there are other
OO features (related to the database) missing because java is not
available to bring this back to OO.
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Les Mikesell
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