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Date:      Fri, 19 Jul 96 23:44:05 +0200
From:      cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
To:        jfieber@indiana.EDU
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: JDK 1.0.2 available for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <9607192144.AA03297@wavehh.hanse.de>
References:  <199607190818.KAA01181@xaa.stack.urc.tue.nl> <Pine.BSI.3.95.960719113722.5283N-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu>

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jfieber@indiana.EDU (John Fieber) wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Jul 1996, FreeBSD matters of Mark Huizer wrote:

>> There are two things you can do, both mostly easily to be found in the
>> ports tree.
>> 
>> 1. kaffe (ftp://ftp.sarc.city.ac.uk:/pub/kaffe) is in /usr/ports/www/kaffe
>> 
>> 2. use netscape: you install the JDK (a.o. the classes.zip file, see 

>3. If you are running FreeBSD-current, the linux port of jdk
>   1.0.2 works just fine.
    ^ ^ ^
    1.0.1. Sun changed the source lincense and the original Linux port
author will, as far as I know from others, not accept the new
license. The point in question is that a binary port cannot be bundeld
with other software on a sold CDROM.

Since Sun doesn't answer (my) other questions about their source
license, I have to admit I'm not sure how far people can trust Sun's
development kit to be on free platforms in future. I'm using
alternatives (C :-).

BTW, the last Netscape version that was able to run the Java compiler
was 3.0beta2 and that expired some days ago. I'd submit kernel patches
to make time() have an per-process negative offset, but that wouldn't
make Netscape's cache problems any better :-)

Martin
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