From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 22 15:10:50 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org 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 D8B3816A41F for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:10:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from j.verschoor@nefli.nl) Received: from gollum.cambrium.nl (mx1.cambrium.nl [217.19.16.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10D3843D5A for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:10:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from j.verschoor@nefli.nl) Received: (qmail 5915 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2005 15:10:47 -0000 Received: from 82-197-207-21.dsl.cambrium.nl (HELO ?192.168.1.143?) (82.197.207.21) by gollum.cambrium.nl with SMTP; 22 Aug 2005 15:10:47 -0000 Message-ID: <4309EB1F.2050109@nefli.nl> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:11:27 +0200 From: Joris Verschoor Organization: Nefli B.V. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-java@freebsd.org References: <20050822054110.GC6627@osiris.chen.org.nz> <430989AB.7090200@nefli.nl> <4309D516.6060004@mindspring.com> <4309DFF3.4060702@iang.org> <4309E0A1.3090806@mindspring.com> <4309E4E2.7010600@iang.org> <4309E6A0.9040403@mindspring.com> <20050822145916.GB26047@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <20050822145916.GB26047@wjv.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Starting with freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:10:51 -0000 iirc the freebsd foundation arranged some sort of agreement with sun some time ago. Or was this only for an older version? What is the state of this? And can we expect a package in the future? btw, how much does certification cost, and does it have to be payed every update release? Bill Vermillion wrote: >After replacing Phil Helms with a small shell script on >Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 08:52 , the following appeared on stdout: > > >>I assume there's some sort of license that allows Linux distros to >>include Java in compiled form. If that's so, then what's preventing >>FreeBSD from having the same thing? The difficulty of performing the >>test suite? >> >> > >The cost involved. Without a certified port approved by Sun, >all other have to compile it themselves and can not redistribute >the compiled version. > > > > > >>Ian G wrote: >> >> >>>Java *is* ported to FreeBSD, and is these days quite >>>snappy about it. Problem is, there is no permission >>>to distribute a port in Package form. You can quite >>>happily make yourself a Package, though. >>> >>> >>> >>-- >>Phil Helms >>phelms1@mindspring.com >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-java@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-java >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-java-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >> > > >