Stefan Held wrote:
http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/j2se/java2/download.xml
You only need this aggrement to build your own java version from the
source and distribute it. Exactly like you need it for Firefox.
This is not a Free software license which is a requirement for inclusion
in Fedora. See
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Objectives and
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Legal. Just a week or
so back I attended a Sun presentation on open source Java where they
admitted to not having complete source code under a Free software
license since portions of code is licensed by Sun from other vendors.
Like I said the tentative timeline to remove that encumbrances is March
2007.
This license was nessesary because M$ tried to sell Java as theire
own
creation (M$ JVM). Please do not cry out FUD.
You misunderstood. Major portions of Sun Java is under a GPL+classpath
exception license currently. See
https://openjdk.dev.java.net/
However there are portions of it still not available a Free software
license due to it being licensed from other vendors.
Fedora Project is not willing to negotiate agreements to include
proprietary software unlike the FreeBSD foundation.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 30. Nov 01:43 /etc/alternatives/java
-> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-sun/bin/java
I am not exactly sure how such answers help .......
If you already knew about alternatives, thats the extend of support we
can currently provide for other JVM's.
Rahul