Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 08:12:11 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co (Pedro Giffuni) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: about java Message-ID: <199703190712.IAA22755@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <332F63A2.3AA0@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from Pedro Giffuni at "Mar 18, 97 07:55:15 pm"
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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? One might make a package out of it. Binary redistribuition doesn't seem to be a problem. (Or would that then belong to 'commercial' ?) > > > 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. ;-) > -- Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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