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Cc: freebsd-java@freebsd.org, Ian G <iang@iang.org>
Subject: On binary JDK packages (was: Re: Starting with freebsd)
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Phil Helms wrote:
> 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 last news on that front can be found here:

http://www.javalobby.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=16511&tstart=0
http://www.infoworld.com/article/05/01/06/HNfreebsdsun_1.html

I don't know if there has been any progress on this, after Sun's 
licensing restructuring.

Panagiotis