From owner-freebsd-java Fri Sep 13 12:48: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69D2337B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 12:47:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.hccnet.nl (smtp.hccnet.nl [62.251.0.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E47343E75 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 12:47:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from znerd@FreeBSD.org) Received: from there by smtp.hccnet.nl via uds69-45.dial.hccnet.nl [62.251.45.69] with SMTP id VAA05260 (8.8.8/1.13); Fri, 13 Sep 2002 21:47:45 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <200209131947.VAA05260@smtp.hccnet.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Ernst de Haan Organization: FreeBSD Project To: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" , Subject: Re: Sun License for JDK 1.4 forces automatic updates ?!! Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 21:47:44 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: <200209021317.04041.znerd@FreeBSD.org> <00ef01c255d7$261587b0$16d05982@LOONBENEDEN> In-Reply-To: <00ef01c255d7$261587b0$16d05982@LOONBENEDEN> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > I believe we should consider banning the Sun JDK 1.4 for Linux. > > With all due respect I think we should stay well and far away from > prescribing policy the way you are suggesting. It is exclusively up to the > user to decide whether using products covered by the Sun license is > acceptable or not. I agree, we should just print an extra warning informing the user of this. Ernst To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message