Eclipse on Linux Distributions eclipse.org project approved

[Stefan Held]

Am Sonntag, den 03.12.2006, 05:11 +0530 schrieb Rahul Sundaram:

> Fedora Project wouldnt ship binary only software anyway so there was no 


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 license was nessesary because M$ tried to sell Java as theire own
creation (M$ JVM). Please do not cry out FUD.

http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml


Nice to see that other projects managed this .....

> incentive to negotiate such a agreement. However the jpackage.org folks 

[sheld at develop ~]$ rpm -qa | grep sun
java-1.5.0-sun-plugin-1.5.0.09-1jpp
java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.09-1jpp

> already have done the work necessary and Fedora includes the 
> "alternatives" package which allows you to switch between GCJ and Sun 
> JDK. See man alternatives for details.
[sheld at develop ~]$ ls -la /etc/alternatives/java

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 30. Nov 01:43 /etc/alternatives/java
-> /usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.5.0-sun/bin/java

> Rahul

I am not exactly sure how such answers help .......


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