Java problem

[Les Mikesell]

Alan Cox wrote:
>>> Actually for Red Hat it is because Java was non-free. There are various
>>> third party products bundled alongside RHEL which businesses demand which
>>> are non-free.
>> And what could possibly make them think that fedora users don't need the 
>> same?
> 
> Fedora is a distribution of free software. Now that Java is becoming free
> Fedora will be able to include it. If you want a non-free Java for Fedora
> then Sun will supply you with one.
> 
>>>> the baroque locations that java is expected to live on RH/fedora to the 
>>>> place that the official distribution puts it if it makes you happy.
>>> The Sun package is produced by Sun, they choosoe to put it in /usr/java.
>> Sun probably knows as much as anyone else about where java should live, 
>> but if you want to second guess that and build a morass of symlinks 
>> pointing to symlinks, why not include a set that point to this location?
> 
> You'd have to ask Sun why they did it the way they did.

I'm asking why fedora chooses not to be compatible with the reference 
version of java.  And why it ships something that executes with the name 
java that probably doesn't pass the compatibility tests.

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   Les Mikesell
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