linux.gentoo.user

On Monday 07 April 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:

> I wonder if this is a bug in the ebuild. sun-jdk used to be
> fetch-restricted but it isn't anymore (at least the new versions). If
> anyone knows if this change applies for the 1.4-branch too, please
> file a bug.

That will never happen. Sun had third party contracts in place with
other parties that developed technologies inside previous jdk's. One of
the conditions led to the non-redistribution of the jdk.

Recent versions of sun-jdk-1.6 (or perhaps portions thereof) are now
released under GPL. If Jonathan is to be believed, this took several
years of negotiation and re-implementation

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Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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