Java problem

David Boles dgboles at gmail.com
Sat Dec 29 18:07:15 UTC 2007


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Craig White wrote:
> ----
> WRT Sun's Java, you know that Karl won't know that answer but I do.
> 
> The answer is here...
> https://jdk-distros.dev.java.net/
> 
> which of course still begs the issue of their license which is
> restrictive.


They provide the whole package or just the 'free' part? It has been a
long time since I read Sun's Java license but I seem to remember that
you could not do that.


> nVidia is of course, a horse of another color since only binaries exist
> and there is no source to study at all.


Which was pretty much my point there. Good (bad?) way to stick something
evil into your distribution.  ;-) And it does not have to be evil. Maybe
it just does not work well. Or at all. So how do you fix it? You can't.

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  David
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