Sun JRE or JDK to enter core, or at least extras?

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 10:35 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Mer 17 mai 2006 22:56, seth vidal a écrit :
> > On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 22:48 +0200, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> any comments on
> >> http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2006-05/sunflash.20060516.4.xml ?
> >> I understand this as an indicator, that the Sun JDK and JRE should now
> >> be distributable via Fedora Core or Extras? If so, I would very much
> >> like to see this.
> >>
> >
> > it is not free software.
> >
> > fedora is about free software:
> >
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Overview#head-c12f7664badb48c91c2cf8547a450fcaed001de0
> 
> 
> However it should be good enough for a sister project like jpackage.
> I'm not following jpackage nowadays but two years ago this would have been
> a welcome licensing change
> 

and what jpackage chooses to do is a bit off topic for this list.

-sv