On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 2:20 AM, Jan de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 10:47 +0200, Andreas Radke wrote: >> +1 from me. Most work seems to done already in the AUR packages. >> >> But then we should also drop providing SUN's jre/jdk in extra. >> Let's support only free software. Let's put SUN stuff back to AUR. >> That >> also solves probable license issues. > > Both JRE/JDKs are compatible with eachother. The licensing of Sun > JRE/JDK is "free" also due to the distribution license they put on it. > This means we can distribute it with our distribution for free. This > means there's no licensing issue, so we're allowed to have it in the > repositories, either extra or community. > > I don't know what the current maintainer thinks about keeping JDK/JRE, > but if he insists on keeping it, we'll keep it. If he decides to drop > it, we'll drop it and place it in community.
I'll keep doing my poor job maintaining JDK/JRE but I still think it should probably be around. Jason
