Re: GPL Java

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

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On 11/14/06 07:41, Gustavo Franco wrote:
> On 11/14/06, Gregory Seidman <gsslist+debian@anthropohedron.net> wrote:
>> Okay, so Java's GPL'd now: http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp
>> (Also http://java.net/ )
>>
>> How soon will we see packages in main at long last? Granted, a buildable
>> JDK isn't expected until Spring of next year...
> 
> Hi Gregory,
> 
> Short answer: It depends.
> 
> Btw, i would bet in a Sun GPL'd JDK to be released with Etch+1,
> hopefully around the end of the next year or early 08'. It depends how
> buildable it will be, the effort needed to package it and the number
> of people motivated to work on that.

Sun Java is already in contrib, so it should(?) be trivial to move
it to main, no?


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