From owner-freebsd-java Mon Dec 24 2: 5:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from ool-18bacefa.dyn.optonline.net (ool-18bacefa.dyn.optonline.net [24.186.206.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CDA537B41B for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 02:05:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ool-18bacefa.dyn.optonline.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ool-18bacefa.dyn.optonline.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBOA6E438191 for ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 05:06:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from c.rued@xsb.com) Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2001 05:06:14 -0500 From: Christopher Rued To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Java binary license for FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011224050614.G35005@ool-18bacefa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Balsa 1.3.0 Lines: 13 Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce that it has secured a > license from Sun Microsystems to distribute a native FreeBSD version > of both the Java Development Kit (JDK) and the Java Runtime > Environment (JRE). Thanks to the great efforts of the FreeBSD Java > team, these should be available for inclusion with the upcoming > release of FreeBSD 4.5 in January, 2002. This is great news! Does this mean that the port will be less annoying? In other words, can we download the source without going to Sun's site and without a manual download? Does this also mean that we can have a package for it? - Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message