Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 19:55:15 -0800 From: Pedro Giffuni <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: about java Message-ID: <332F63A2.3AA0@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> References: <332ED48A.2D7D@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> <199703181944.UAA19850@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <19970318220824.WR41982@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote: > > As Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > > Or get (Jeffrey Hsu's native port of) > > > > ftp://freefall.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/LOCAL_PORTS/jdk102.tar.gz > > I always wondered why this ain't an official FreeBSD port. Any > reason? > There is a jdk in the ports tree, but AFAIK it only contains the sources SUN publicly permits to distribute (too general to be really useful I suppose). For non-commercial use you can get the source code and figure out how o make it work but you cannot redistribute the real thing in source form. Recently, (I looked the new licensing schemes for jdk-1.1) binaries and patches can be distributed if you sign, but still no source code. JIC read at www.javasoft.com their licenses (I am not a lawyer). Pedro. > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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