Re: OT: Politics of Java
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 07:41:19PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 01:49:35PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > On 20/11/02 Kent West did speaketh:
> > > However, as I started to download the SDK from Sun's web site, it
> > > started bothering me more and more that Sun's license is such that it
> > > prevents Debian from including it as part of the distro. I'm not sure of
> >
> > I'm confused. Isn't this what we have a non-free section for?
>
> We still have to be able to distribute it to put it in non-free. As I
> understand it, that isn't the case for newer JDKs.
There are quite many free JVMs out there. If Java would be standard in
Debian, one of them could be used.
As I understand it, the JDK has to be downloaded from the site
because Sun wants to keep the tally of the downloaders, and sort of
keeping track of you if you are downloading from the JDC.
Oki
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