Vincent Hennebert wrote:
Java was not provided with Linux distributions (Debian, at least) for a
long time because of license issues. This is no longer a problem now
since the license terms were recently changed.
You're a little premature. Only part of JDK (or JRE) has been released
as Free Software so far, though Sun s announced that all of JDK will
be becomes Free Software (modulo complications with libraries that
have other copyright holders.)
There is gcj and other Free Java re-implementations that use the
ClassPath libraries. Fedora ships that and many Java applications
built with those tools; I don't know if Debian does.
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