From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 29 10:22:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sharmas.dhs.org (cpe-66-1-147-119.ca.sprintbbd.net [66.1.147.119]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC3E837B403 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:22:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adsharma@sharmas.dhs.org) Received: by sharmas.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 32B495E06E; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:22:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:22:14 -0700 From: Arun Sharma To: Nate Williams Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Java (Was Re: NGPT 1.0.0 port to freebsd) Message-ID: <20010629102214.A10651@sharmas.dhs.org> References: <20010629010159.A8557@sharmas.dhs.org> <15164.39221.111336.661501@nomad.yogotech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <15164.39221.111336.661501@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:05:25AM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:05:25AM -0600, Nate Williams wrote: > With the current license, this won't be installed as part of the base > kernel. (GPL and/or LGPL) I understand it'll continue to be a port. Am I hearing that it is unacceptable even as a temporary solution because of the license ? > It's been answered time and time again over the past months, so you must > not be paying attention. The binary distribution hasn't been created > because we don't have a legal license to do so (yet). Yes, I've been reading that for a long time now, but it (what Sun is doing) doesn't make any sense to me. Are Sun's reasons (a) Technical ? Passing of JCK etc ? (b) Political ? Yet another competitor to Solaris ? >From your posting it appears that it's technical (not passing JCK), as well as political (not getting the license to run JCK). What is their answer reg: blackdown.org doing the same ? May be getting Zdnet to publish an article on this is the right way to go ? The bug parades and votes didn't seem to help much. > In summary, a Java binary distribution of JDK1.2.2 will come out *very > soon* after a usable license with Sun has been signed. Hopefully, we'll > have a JDK1.3 binary distribution soon after, as Greg Lewis has made > alot of progress on it and has it limping along right now. That's good to hear. Eagerly awaiting the news. -Arun To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message