On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 09:57:57AM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:23:59PM +0800, Paolo Falcone wrote: > > There's a port for java2 sdk 1.3 (can't remember if it's blackdown's > > or what...). Anyway, Sun made Blackdown and other entities who wish > > to port the java2 sdk to sign NDA's, thus the licensing issue - > > can't distribute them with the regular CD's. hope that would change > > in the future (Sun looks a bit promising on this... M$ a distant > > reality...) > > > > The ported j2sdk1.3 for linux are available for the potato, woody > > and sid versions of debian gnu/linux. > > /me shakes head slowly > > Sun, Sun, Sun... you'd think they'd wisen up by now. Especially > with C# and .NET looming on the horizon.
Yeah. There's been an attempt to clarify the licence enough to get it into non-free, but the ftpmasters weren't convinced that it was good enough (even non-free has some requirements - the licence looked like it required Debian to indemnify Sun against any damages caused by our package, IIRC). > I don't really like Java all that much. Too slow. Moore's law be > damned. Amen, brother. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
