It is because we cannot ship a JDK without licensing problems.
Shipping a JRE on powertools may be an option if there is some other
part of powertools that needs a JRE.
Sun's stance on Java licensing still makes it a license prohibitive
technology as far as Open Source/Free Software goes, at least for
distribution makers.
Hopefully Sun will see that the Java world would be much better if
they let it be freely redistributable.
Cheers,
Matt
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:25:57AM +0100, Ingo Luetkebohle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a reason RedHat does not include Java into the core
> distribution? If its licensing related -- what about putting it into
> Powertools? For the record, Kaffe is cool but its not fully compatible
> with newer developments (Swing, Java2, etc)
>
> Things that might be of interest (and are a really drain to download)
> include the JDK, ant, Tomcat, the Apache XML stuff and so on.
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