Someone on the opennms mail list just mentioned that RHEL up2date now
provides sun java. Is that a possibility for the Centos repositories?
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Les Mikesell
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Les Mikesell wrote:> Someone on the opennms mail list just mentioned that RHEL up2date now > provides sun java. Is that a possibility for the Centos repositories? >ENEEDMOREINFO btw, RHEL has always provided a working ( ibm or whatever ) java stack that just worked via their extras mechanism. if someone can sort out the legal angles and show us some sources - we'd look at doing the same thing. - KB -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq
> Someone on the opennms mail list just mentioned that RHEL up2date now > provides sun java. Is that a possibility for the Centos repositories?I think CentOS repo is providing Sun Java 1.4.2. regards
Didn't Sun Open Source most of Java. Maybe this is a route for all Linux distros to standardize Java with OpenJDK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070503/4e5f1f42/attachment-0001.html>
Les Mikesell wrote:> Lance Davis wrote: > >>>> Would it be possible to have Sun's JDK in a CentOS repository using >>>> Sun DLJ license? This license allows the binary JDK redistribution by >>>> linux distributions (as far as I know Ubuntu includes the JDK under >>>> this license). >>> >>> we had a look at this a long time back, when the DLJ was announced >>> initially - and we didnt think it was open enough for us to ship >>> Java, also there are some legal issues that seem grey and the only >>> response we could get from Sun was along the lines of 'go speak to >>> your lawyers'. >>> >>> We dont really have any layers, so we wont be speaking to them :) >> >> The main issue is that Sun insist that we accept liability for 3rd >> party use - whilst Mark Shuttleworth has deep enough pockets - we >> dont .... >> >> We are trying to work with Sun to remove this requirement though. > > I don't see how, regardless of what the Sun agreement says, you could > be held any more or less responsible for redistributing java than any > other software component you redistribute. That is, someone would > have to successfully sue over damages from a software flaw first and > if people could do that, Microsoft would have been out of business > many years ago. And it is bound to be less buggy than the version you > do distribute... > > Anyway, according the the link I posted (which I can't check myself), > you can now use RHEL up2date to get sun java, so Red Hat must have > worked something out too.So what is the magic command with up2date to get that? Or what repo is it coming from?
On 5/3/07, Eugene Fong <etfong at gmail.com> wrote:> Didn't Sun Open Source most of Java. Maybe this is a route for all Linux > distros to standardize Java with OpenJDKThey open-sourced many of the java bits, yes. They're working toward a full FOSS release as well, but currently several key pieces of java code still remain under the older restricted license. Until this code is either rewritten, or released outright, it won't be usable. Watching the jpackage list is a good way to track the movement of java. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell