David Walluck wrote:
> Conrad Knauer wrote:
>
>>>Sun has released an update 6:
>>>http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp
>>>Does this mean it will soon be released as a deb by the PLF?
>
>
> PLF has not traditionally handled Java software. Besides, PLF does not
> distribute things which it does not have a legal right to distribute (as
> far as I know) and the jdk falls in this category. It has nothing to do
> with it being non-free, but instead has to do with the fact that
> individual users cannot distribute it.
Actually, it is a grey area. Unless things changed since my
participation in JPackage project, no one could tell if distributing
software under Sun Binary License (as the JDKs) if legal or not, and Sun
never dared to answer our questions. My own understanding was that it
was legal, but there was no consensus among project contributors. So I
wouldn't say we can't distribute JDK legally, rather than we don't know.
Now, they are a tons of other software we never really tried to know how
legal it was, such as win32, real audio and xanim codecs, and I'm quite
confident the answer would be far more easier to find (do you really
think microsoft would allow redistributing its library to use elsewhere
as windows ?)
The real reason was to avoid duplicating existing work already done by
JPackage project in rpm world.
--
You can't teach an old dog new tricks, but you sure can add lots of
bells and whistles to the pooch.
-- Murphy's Law of Enhancements
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