RE: JAVA on DebianPPC

["Jonathan Belson" <jon@witchspace.com>]

Hiya


> > is this a "political" issue or is there just no maintainer for JAVA
> > packages?
> 
> Sun's Java implementation is proprietary software.  You can't even
> redistribute it, much less improve it and share it with your friends,
> like you can the rest of Debian.

You can't redistribute it in binary form unless it's been approved
by Sun, since they want to ensure that distributed versions are
standards-compliant (and make money in the process - no suprises there).

>From an objective point of view, how could Sun have stopped Microsoft
from distributing their non-standard JDK (ie. produces non-portable
code by default) if they hadn't kept ownership of Java?


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C-YA
Jon

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