From owner-freebsd-java Sun Jan 18 09:40:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA26073 for java-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 09:40:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA26068 for ; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 09:39:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA04828; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 10:39:39 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA00551; Sun, 18 Jan 1998 10:39:32 -0700 Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 10:39:32 -0700 Message-Id: <199801181739.KAA00551@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Ruslan Shevchenko Cc: "Eric J. Chet" , stephen farrell , freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd port of omnibroker UPDATE In-Reply-To: <34C0E3CA.16574FCD@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> References: <34C0E3CA.16574FCD@Shevchenko.kiev.ua> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > ? ? I have been doing a lot of java work lateley, the new port will > > ? ? include java. I like Ruslan's patches better than mine for the chat demo, ... > > There is a porting effort of JDK-1.1.5 to freebsd, the problem is at this > > point you must have a source license from Sun to build the latest JDK. > > problem, that I have not source license and I don't wont to have it, > becausethis would restrict me in working Java-related cleanroom > projects. > > Why RedHat Linux have binary JDK as RPM, but FreeBSD have not binary JDK > in ports ? I'll let RedHat Linux worry about the licensing issues. As I read them, you are *NOT* allowed to distribute the JDK as a package, but you *can* distribute it as a port, similar to how the netscape port it done. The reason it hasn't been built as a port is the JDK port is still in transition, and not yet complete. > I guess, that putting binary Sun JDK in ports with reading > binary licension in pre-install is legal. Feel free to do such a thing, but IMHO this is not legal. Nate