begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:36:41PM -0800: > Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: > >On Jan 7, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Tracy R Reed wrote: > > > >>That's nice but so far Iced Tea hasn't run the java browser applets > >>that I have needed nor will it run Limewire or various other things. I > >>keep hearing that Sun's Java is FOSS so I'm wondering why, if this is > >>true, that we haven't seen it bundled with a distro yet. > > > >The terms of the CDDL license on Java quite clearly state that > >re-distribution is prohibited. > > > >AT least, that was the state of things the last time I cared about it.
...2005? > I thought Java switched to a genuine GPL. > > Is that wrong? According to http://www.java.net/community/openjdk/ At JavaOne 2006, Rich Green, Sun's Executive VP of Software, said, "It's not a question of whether, but its a question of how." One year later at JavaOne 2007, Sun delivered on that promise and announced the source for a fully buildable JDK is now available under the GPL v2 license on java.net. -- Now begins the whining about version two versus version three It's not good enough that they conceded, it's not really free! Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-lpsg
