On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Stephan van Hienen <ddx at a2000.nu>
wrote:> Starting with rhel 5.2, Redhat provides sun java in the Supplementary
> channel.
> Are there any plans to release sun-java in the centos extra or plus repo ?
>
> Would be nice to keep sun java up to date using yum.
>
I believe those versions are not redistributable due to licenses that
IBM, BEA, SUN add to their binaries. So CentOS could not redistribute
those RPMS.
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